What is the most suicidal time of the year?
What is the most suicidal time of the year? - Seasonal influence on suicide rates The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Center for Health Statistics report that the suicide rate in the United States is lowest during the winter months and highest in the spring and summer. Stephen Bridges asserts that the suicide rate is "high in early spring (April and May) and low in winter". Bridges' study focused on the seasonal effect on suicide risk by examining the monthly distribution of suicides during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s through a "harmonized time series model." with six observable harmonic cycles in each consecutive year. The results showed a consistent pattern of suicide risk with most suicides occurring in the spring/summer and least during the winter months. Specifically, Bridges found that during the 1970s "about 47% of total variance could be explained by seasonal components" during that decade (with more suicides in