Lifeline sent out a report just the other day saying contacts to their hotlines are way up since March this year so the actual suicide number might not be giving a realistic picture of the states mental health situation https://twitter.com/benitakolovos/status/1298785608026841088

getting very annoyed by left wing people pushing this narrative that mental health issues haven’t been exacerbated by lockdowns just cos one indicator suggests that might be so. This isn’t just wrong it’s also bad science

Like I’ve seen plenty of people on here who have posted about their own mental health issues over the last few months use this one report as some sorta gotcha moment against Victorian conservatives. Not everything has to be part of the culture wars. Have a spell for a minute

Wait till the jobkeeper and jobseeker supplements end and we get post-crisis austerity measures, that’s when you’ll start seeing the uptick in suicide