Furtherman
07-08-2009, 09:47 AM
Deadliest day for suicides: Wednesday (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31780455/ns/health-mental_health/)
Surprise findings suggest job stress may be behind midweek spike.
If you listen to popular songs, you might conclude there’s no day as depressing as a Monday. But a new study shows that lyricists may have gotten it all wrong and that Wednesday is really the darkest day of the week.
The study, published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, found that people are far more likely to kill themselves in the middle of the week than in the beginning or the end: almost 25 percent of suicides occur on Wednesdays as compared to 14 percent on Mondays or Saturdays, the two days tied for second-highest suicide rates. The study also found if you make it through Wednesday, your risk for suicide plummets by more than half the following day; Thursdays have the lowest rate, with only 11 percent of suicides.
Suicide rates by day of the week
Day Suicide rate (percent)
Sunday 11.8
Monday 14.3
Tuesday 12.7
Wednesday 24.6
Thursday 11.1
Friday 11.2
Saturday 14.4
Source: "Association of temporal factors and suicides in the United States, 2000-2004" by Augstine J. Kposowa and Stephanie D'Auria
So, how we all feelin' today? Hmm?
Surprise findings suggest job stress may be behind midweek spike.
If you listen to popular songs, you might conclude there’s no day as depressing as a Monday. But a new study shows that lyricists may have gotten it all wrong and that Wednesday is really the darkest day of the week.
The study, published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, found that people are far more likely to kill themselves in the middle of the week than in the beginning or the end: almost 25 percent of suicides occur on Wednesdays as compared to 14 percent on Mondays or Saturdays, the two days tied for second-highest suicide rates. The study also found if you make it through Wednesday, your risk for suicide plummets by more than half the following day; Thursdays have the lowest rate, with only 11 percent of suicides.
Suicide rates by day of the week
Day Suicide rate (percent)
Sunday 11.8
Monday 14.3
Tuesday 12.7
Wednesday 24.6
Thursday 11.1
Friday 11.2
Saturday 14.4
Source: "Association of temporal factors and suicides in the United States, 2000-2004" by Augstine J. Kposowa and Stephanie D'Auria
So, how we all feelin' today? Hmm?