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Holiday Suicides: Is That BS? with Sadie Dingfelder

Holiday Suicides: Is That BS? with Sadie Dingfelder

Update: 2025-12-10
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Holiday dread is real enough—fraught family gatherings, forced merriment, and the persistent myth that December is the peak month for suicide. In truth, it's the lowest month for suicides, even as the season brings elevated risks of car crashes, cardiac emergencies, and alcohol-related ER visits. Sadie Dingfelder joins for an Is That Bulls**t? to explain why winter depression rises even as suicide rates fall, and how the "holiday spike" myth keeps circulating. Plus: Trump's tariff rhetoric collides with economic reality, and Texas politics gets reshaped by counter-mobilization.

Produced by Corey Wara


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Holiday Suicides: Is That BS? with Sadie Dingfelder

Holiday Suicides: Is That BS? with Sadie Dingfelder