The birthday blues revisited: the timing of suicidal, homicidal and natural deaths
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
- Vol. 73 (3) , 322-323
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1986.tb02691.x
Abstract
The present results fail to find as excess of deaths from suicide (and natural deaths and homicides) around the birthday. Thus there is no evidence for a "birthday blues" effect.Keywords
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