Seasonal effects on suicide rates

Research on seasonal effects on suicide rates suggests that the prevalence of suicide is greatest during the late spring and early summer months, despite the common belief that suicide rates peak during the cold and dark months of the winter season. From both a behavioral and a biological standpoint, the reasons for this are unclear, but associations between seasonality and other possibly related phenomena have been found.

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