"And when no hope was left in sight on that starry
Starry night.
You took your life
As lovers often do";
This lyric is calling attention to Vincent Van Gogh's suicide in 1890 which was after years of being in various mental institutions. The suicide rate among individuals after leaving a psychiatric hospital is relatively high. A meta-analysis of 100 studies published from 1946-2016 found that the post discharge suicide rate is 100 times the global suicide rate during the first 3 months after discharge. (Chung DT, Ryan CJ, Hadzi-Pavlovic D, Singh SP, Stanton C, Large MM. Suicide Rates After Discharge From Psychiatric Facilities: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry. 2017;74(7):694–702. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2017.1044)
"And when no hope was left in sight on that starry Starry night. You took your life As lovers often do"; This lyric is calling attention to Vincent Van Gogh's suicide in 1890 which was after years of being in various mental institutions. The suicide rate among individuals after leaving a psychiatric hospital is relatively high. A meta-analysis of 100 studies published from 1946-2016 found that the post discharge suicide rate is 100 times the global suicide rate during the first 3 months after discharge. (Chung DT, Ryan CJ, Hadzi-Pavlovic D, Singh SP, Stanton C, Large MM. Suicide Rates After Discharge From Psychiatric Facilities: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry. 2017;74(7):694–702. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2017.1044)