About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to new government data posted Thursday.
I find it interesting how much western countries have individualised the causes of sadness.
It’s not that strange that people are often sick in a sick society. If you’re depressed, it’s likely that there are things that are causing or exacerbating that depression.
Give people homes, job security, less stressful jobs, and offer them a healthy work-life balance? Far easier to deal with and possibly even heal from trauma or serious health issues.
But that costs money. Selling people pills and self-help books? That makes money.
I believe it. This place sucks. Criminals and assholes everywhere, at least in my life. People claw at you and fuck you over until your suicidal. I have no respect for America at all anymore. It feels like having to live with seeing your rapist everyday.
That and nobody cares. I sent out goodbye texts to a lot of people in my life. Literally no one cares. I’ve had people try to push me to suicide, stalk me, and give me death threats since 2020. Cops don’t care.
Ok first of all I get you, as someone from Europe, the greatest strengths of America often sound like the biggest weaknesses to me.
And then ofc if you wanna talk about it I’m here and I will listen :) hope you’re doing good.
Literally can’t talk about because I get death threats because I made some bad people mad. And I know what they are capable of.
All my social media is watched by them.
Edit: I always get down votes for my real life experience posts. The world is fucked, you just shut out anything that goes against the privilege you were born into. Life is death war and chaos. You can either live for humanity or continue making rich criminals richer while you deny reality. I’ve seen people get other people murdered by cops on purpose. It’s real. This is America… There is zero hope.
Excessive doomerism isn’t popular among those that don’t share your experiences
What the fuck? How privileged are you? Your so fucking caught up in whack dumbass pop “doomerism” that you think gang shit doesn’t go on… Your pathetic. Wake the fuck up and walk through a ghetto you pathetic piece of shit. I’ve almost been murdered literally… have you…? Have you? You piece of privileged piece of shit? I’ve had people shoot guns outside my house and threaten to kill my family and your pathetic ass wants to call it doomerism? Wake the fuck up and get smacked out of your precious privileged life.
You never want to know what it’s like. Every day I think about killing myself because of the reality I’ve seen. And you want to call it doomerism… Jesus Christ America’s dead as fuck.
Imagine someone threatening to kill your mom or dad or sister or brother… Ive fucking lived that. America’s fucked. And all because I came in contact with the wrong person randomly. I literally went to the police and they don’t care. I literally got laughed at. America is fucked to the core. You people are so pure and desensitized from holywood you think the reality of humanity is fake. It’s disgusting and pathetic. But let me guess you change your whack ass Facebook profile to support the latest cause… Piece of shit.
Don’t think the underprivileged dont see you fake people pushing pop politics, you are seen, and you won’t be on the same team if a civil war comes along.
You misunderstand me. You were complaining about downvotes from people who don’t share your experiences. You were also claiming that absolutely everything is terrible, here.
Yes, you’ve had bad experiences. I don’t doubt that. But the downvotes come from those that don’t share your experiences and completely disagree that “everything is terrible.” You’re labelling absolutely everything bad based on your own personal experiences and, while I get it, is not really how things work
I will probably get shit for this, since it’s a predominantly left leaning space, but until society starts acknowledging men’s issues it will keep getting worse.
https://afsp.org/suicide-statistics
In 2021, men died by suicide 3.90x more than women.
In 2021, firearms accounted for 54.64% of all suicide deaths.
This article is an excellent example of what I am talking about. It does not even mention the disparity of suicide rates between the sexes despite it obviously being a huge outlier. Instead, they talk about how guns are the problem, even though a gun is just a method.
Taking away the easy methods to commit suicide might reduce the rate, but it does nothing to address to core issues that make people want to kill themselves in the first place. Instead of 5000 dead people you will have 5000 people who wish they were dead. Mission accomplished.
I will probably get shit for this, since it’s a predominantly left leaning space, but until society starts acknowledging men’s issues it will keep getting worse.
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What left leaning circles have you been in? I think we all know men have issues too?
I can’t think of a single left leaning space that is not concerned or empathetic about the mental health of men. I can think of several right leaning spaces that dismiss men’s mental health struggles with “stop being a snowflake and man up.”
