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. 2020 Oct:53:102382.
doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102382. Epub 2020 Aug 27.

Repeated celebrity suicide in India during COVID-19 crisis: An urgent call for attention

Sujita Kumar Kar  1 , S M Yasir Arafat  2 , Ramdas Ransing  3 , Vikas Menon  4 , Susanta Kumar Padhy  5 , Pawan Sharma  6 , Marthoenis Marthoenis  7
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Repeated celebrity suicide in India during COVID-19 crisis: An urgent call for attention

Sujita Kumar Kar et al. Asian J Psychiatr. 2020 Oct.
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