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

I believe there are many causes of high suicide rates among men in the western world.

IMO, the most predominant cause is the modern world we’ve created for ourselves. This has caused:

Lack of community
Lack of purpose
Lack of adventures to live
Lack of battles to fight (metaphorically, not just literal battles)
Decline in culture and traditions

I will argue until im dead, that the world before WW2 was a better environment for our mental health. For both men and women. Many people cant conceive this thought because they get stuck on the racism and lack of women’s rights in the past, but thats not what I'm referring to.

People once lived, worked, attended school and church in a small radius. This created community and set a foundation for culture to thrive. Now we live in cookie cutter houses and drive an hour to work or school while our spouses and children drive an hour in the opposite direction.

In ironic fashion, the ability to travel so easily has isolated us all.