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You might ask yourself: what, no way?! But there is apparently some research that suggests that the treatment with the antibiotic doxycycline is linked to a 30% lower risk to develop Schizophrenia! So the researchers suggest it as a possible prevention method for teens after having attended psychiatric interventions, which poses them at higher likelihood to being diagnosed with psychiatric disorder.

Of course those findings can’t prove a causal relationship so there is future research needed to look into the details of this relationship.

Inspired by this picture I took when I was on a walk:

Does everybody have a preferred eye to start a drawing or is that just me?

I don't wanna swim the ocean

I don't wanna fight the tide

I don't wanna swim forever

When it's cold, I'd like to die

I don't wanna swim forever

I don't wanna fight the tide

I don't wanna swim the ocean

When it's cold, I'd like to die

I somehow couldn’t get a nice purple color? I was mixing blue, red and white and it just turned into grey/brown? I generally struggle with mixing colors because the paint just gets stuck on the paintbrush.

Well here is the finished thing:

I still struggle most with getting the right consistency of the paint and with mixing it properly.

Sooo, I was reading this book called The Anxious Generation written by Jonathan Haidt where he mentioned Durkheim's work on Suicide from 1897.

Basically Durkheim was a French sociologist and he proposed that suicide is related to the degree of social integration and moral regulation and therefore a social phenomenon.

One of his findings that made me wonder was that suicide rates are higher in times of peace than in times of war due to increased social integration during wartime. So I looked up if there are any recent studies repeating this finding.

There is one study that looked at the Sri Lankan Civil war (1983-2009) and found a decline of 43-52% during the civil war (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240487).

Another study found a decrease of suicide rates among Australians during WWII but an elevation of suicide during the Vietnam War, which actually supports the "social integration" hypotheses, because the period of the Vietnam War was marked by extreme shifts and division in societies around the world. (https://doi.org/10.1177/103985621773474)

There are also studies that report increased suicide rates during the Balkan Wars especially among younger people.(https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13811110600582406?needAccess=true, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0188-4409(02)00364-8) With another study replicating the finding that decreased total population suicide rates might hide an increase in suicide among young men and might misrepresent the overall declining trend of suicide. (https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-167)

So overall I think that the general idea that suicide rates decrease during inter-state wartime seems plausible, when taking into account the increased social integration that happens when your country is at war with another (common enemy and all that). This is also why I think it's logical that during a proxy war this effect is not observed since proxy wars usually devide a country into those against and those in favor of it.

But just as more recent studies have showed you probably can't reach the same conclusions for every group in a population because men and women of different ages face different challanges and opportunities during war so it's reasonable to assume that this is reflected in suicide rates.

(Disclaimer: I did not read most of the studies fully because I don't have access and I am not a scientist, so if I have provided wrong or misleading information, please let me know!)

(Almost missed it because I was working on this painting using this tutorial https://pin.it/2kS7anPdg)

So I had to draw it: