re: Suicide rates at all-time high driven mostly by American men.

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What do you think is causing the suicide rate among men to be so high?

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Men have always had higher suicide rates than women, largely due to men utilizing more lethal means when attempting. Women tend to use things in attempts like pills, which can allow for more time to intervene and save them. Men tend to use firearms, which don’t allow that kind of intervention.

The numbers have gone up among all populations since the introduction of social media in the 00s. It’s not healthy to be that connected all of the time for anyone.

Older men seeing an increase is likely due to social isolation (you don’t have as many senior community services like you used to due to lack of funding), loss of a spouse, and increasing terminal health issues (particularly dementia). Senior care in this country is pretty abysmal as a whole.