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Sep 25, 2026
Minnesota Matters 9-25-26
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Sean MaloneyCORRESPONDENT
I mean, what is the situation in Minnesota when it comes to kind of how many people are dealing with severe mental health illnesses? And what kind of trends have we seen in recent years? Has that situation maybe gotten better, gotten worse? What are we kind of dealing with right now?
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15:04Michael BronsteinGUEST
So just like in the country, there's been about a 20-year uptick in suicide rates in Minnesota, just like there is in the United States generally.
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15:16Michael BronsteinGUEST
That's starting to slow down a tiny bit, but we're still up quite a bit from where we are at the beginning of the 2000s.
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15:23Michael BronsteinGUEST
And right now, about 800 people per 100,000 die by suicide in Minnesota, which is A lot of people, particularly when you start to consider that their suicides also affect family members, close others, communities in real ways.
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15:43Michael BronsteinGUEST
And then for severe mental illness, it depends on exactly what you're going to call severe.

Sean MaloneyCORRESPONDENT
How do you guys hope that the research that you guys are going to do here will help kind of address the issues that people are facing when it comes to mental health and suicidality?