Experts caution that suicide is complicated, and that recent increases might be driven by higher rates of depression or limited availability of mental health services

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.

  • vd1n@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 years ago

      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.

      • vd1n@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 years ago

        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.

  • whats_a_refoogee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 years ago

      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.

      ???

      What left leaning circles have you been in? I think we all know men have issues too?

      • Impassionata@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        In my left leaning circles it’s pretty well understood that feminism is about helping women. And that’s a good thing. Trying to make feminism an ideology which serves all genders is problematic because it implies an omniscient perspective counter to proper intersectionality. Men experience oppression but only men can represent their oppression in discourse.

        Women can’t and shouldn’t feel like they can have an opinion on men’s issues. “Stay in your lane” comes to mind.

        • _tezz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          How far do you take this perspective? As a lefty that doesn’t sound like a very leftist take, rather it sort of completely eschews the principles of solidarity and reason-based argumentation…

          I do agree that feminism is about helping women (and that’s great!), but should mothers not advocate for better mental health resources for their sons? Should I not advocate for better access to birth control for the women in my life because I’m male or for Ukrainian liberty because I’m not Ukrainian? Denying someone access to public discourse about a topic because they’re not suffering the consequences of the topic seems a bit silly to me. And of course, men do actually suffer under patriarchy, albeit in a different way than women obviously.

          • Impassionata@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 years ago

            I am taking some rhetorical leeway towards a more radical presentation of the perspective, for clarity.

            Solidarity can only be achieved once people can recognize one another as equals, and “women tell men how men should advocate for themselves” is not equal recognition. Of course women don’t think they’re womansplaining the oppression men experience.

            I don’t believe in reason-based argumentation. Reason is how consent is manufactured. I trust reason only within the confines of the emotional message a so-called rational actor is emitting within the performance of the ritual of discourse. Too many women have been told to shut up for being ‘unreasonable’ for me to take reasonability all that seriously.

            Certainly mothers should perform their motherhood within this lens. Their motherhood is centered, not the primacy of their opinion. The mistake the essentialization&monopolization type feminists make is centering feminism, when an ideology is not a cure for anything except the nagging sensation that if we come up with and communicate the right ideas the problems will go away.