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I'm going to for other reasons, though, honestly, I think its very much cultural and maybe heritable, and I'm not Lithuanian.
Other issue is anti-depressants, they were found to raise risk of suicide. (which also makes dubious their efficacy at anything; the suicide rate is the only objective measure of depression that is not co-measuring the whining, and it's not improved by anti-depressants. Suggesting that the anti-depressants are an "anti-whining medication")
Sounds like the smoking lesion problem. Maybe people who are more predisposed to suicide in the first place take more anti-depressants.
There are studies that were controlled for this, as much as possible.
The double blind trials found no statistically significant effect of medication on attempted suicide rate due to too small sample sizes:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21450154
(see the wide 95% ci). Such findings were reported by media - thanks the advertisment money from manufacturers - as the connection having been disproved. It's a multi billion dollar subject. Mankind is bad at processing multi billion dollar subjects.
[insert standard peeve against frequentists' ridiculous usage of significant here]
I'm not an expert in depression or suicide or Lithuania. If you're high risk for any reason (like living in Lithuania), it would probably be a good use of your time to take a look at research.