Stress And Suicide In Hard Times: How People Really React

The economy is in bad shape, as the pundits have coined it, "from Wall Street to Main Street." Anyone following the news has some idea of what that may mean for their retirement savings and home loans, but what about the less obvious effects of social and economic hardship?

The more subtle effects are often quite unexpected--and sometimes counterintuitive. For example, while money troubles may evoke visions of penniless and desperate Wall Street investors jumping to their deaths during the Great Depression, that is actually a myth.

Loren Coleman, an expert on suicides and author of "The Copycat Effect," notes that suicides actually decrease during times of social and economic stress: "Historical studies conducted by sociologist Steven Stack and others have discovered a noticeable dip in suicides and related violent events when there is society-wide anguish, for example, in times of massive immediate grieving in periods of wars and economic depressions."

Though hard times may not drive you to suicide, the stress they create can be dangerous.

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God bless brave women like Emily Leatherman. It's so sad that she was set up by a lookalike stalker. It was probably the girlfriend's of one of the guys that drugged and raped her in 2001. What about Tom Cruise? What did he have to do? Did he already resolve a previous problem. Why did Emily move on to another man? I wish there was more in the news about Emily. At this point, everyone knows about her and she should be protected. Stalkers have rights! Any stalker that stalks stalkers could easily use her for prey. Due to the media's unfair account of the situation, they should have to pay for her security. The fair way is that she sues, wins, and hires her own body guard.

Were the forks for weight? If that's it, it's totally understandable. How else one of those helicopters. Now that's dangerous. What if he thought there was a gun mounted to it. Byebye.