Spring Suicides

As spring brings blooming flowers and longer, brighter days, Adam Kaplin’s thoughts turn to darker subjects. The Johns Hopkins assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences focuses on depression and suicide.

He knows that, contrary to popular belief, suicide rates spike in the light of spring, not the darkness of winter.

“In April, May and June, the suicide rate goes up and is the highest,” Kaplin says. Those numbers can be two to three times higher than in December, when suicide rates are the lowest.
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