Mendocino County reports suicides up in 2020 (Ukiah Daily Journal)

Karen Clemmer 1/20/218:09 PM

By UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL January 11, 2021.

Nearly 40-percent increase since May of 2020

Mendocino County officials reported this week that there has been a “nearly 40-percent increase in suicides each month since May of 2020.”

According to numbers released by the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office “deaths caused by suicide have increased greatly with 30 reported between Jan. 1 and Nov. 30, 2020, an increase from 19 in 2019 and 17 in 2018.” And, MCSO Sheriff Matthew Kendall pointed out that such statistics “are typically several weeks delayed due to processing, which may increase the 2020 totals reported.”

The truth is that with the onset of Covid-19, social distancing, economic stress, and significant changes in our daily lives, the stress can be insurmountable,” Sarah Livingston, Redwood Community Services director of Crisis Services, is quoted as saying

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