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

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How many men refuse to seek help for their mental health because of societal pressure to suck it up buttercup?

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I think this is part of it. Parents tend to listen to their daughter's emotions more than their sons.

If a guy wants to frick up his life, society often lets him. If a girl does, her family and friends tend to be there to stop it, or at worst some desperate man is willing to deal with her crazy bs.

My friends who are gone from either OD or Suicide all tended to have a self-destructive streak in them that at times could be seen as fun-loving and not the cry for help that they likely were. It is stuff that loved ones ignored until it was too late.

The most messed up self-destructive girls I knew who lived as fast as any of us, all now have kids and a nice husband or are still living off of dad. The Highwaymen sung about this phenomenon ages ago