Stress and Suicide in Hard Times: How People Really React

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	Stress and Suicide in Hard Times: How People Really React

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f06a3abf-9564-4fd2-9916-0d617cb7820d/BC5B18AC-3212-4ABD-9012-002DDB0E2216/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.livescience.com/health/081010-bad-stress-suicide.html" href="http://www.livescience.com/health/081010-bad-stress-suicide.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.livescience.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/health/081010-bad-stress-suicide.html"><P>By <A href="http://www.RadfordBooks.com">Benjamin Radford</A>, LiveScience's Bad Science Columnist</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/health/081010-bad-stress-suicide.html"><P>
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." 
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Though hard times may not drive you to <A href="http://www.livescience.com/health/070829_bad_suicide.html">suicide</A>, the stress they create can be dangerous. 
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The role of stress in health problems, from high blood pressure and heart disease, is <A href="http://www.livescience.com/health/080115-stress-kills.html">well established</A>. Then there are the secondary effects of stress that trigger <A href="http://www.livescience.com/health/top_10_self_destruction.html">unhealthy behaviors</A> such as smoking.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/health/081010-bad-stress-suicide.html">In times of stress, people tend to seek comfort — and comfort foods.
People who are worried about their retirement and paying the bills are
even more likely to want hamburgers and a night of relaxing on the
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