There has been a record number of suicides in the US in 2022, the biggest increase was women between 25 and 45. What's going on?

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The rate went up 4% overall but decreased for children aged 10-14 and males 35 and younger. Women suffered the largest increase.

jennifer_bloom · Accepted Answer

I believe one factor that the government has failed to research is that pleasure is ruining people's lives. Girls work out like dogs to look like models and then eat French fries and skip lunch and dinner to meet their quota of calories.

People are eating unhealthy food, watching unhealthy porn, watching morally toxic movies on tv, listening to morally corrupt rappers, partying with drug dealers and abusive guys cause the guy has muscles and money, and they are smoking weed and then crying when their brain damaged minds fail their college exams, and they get attacked by bullies when they are beautiful and get rejected by people they love when they are ugly.

I watched Ava Jules birthday party on YouTube and I thought that these people have no clue what life is about. On your birthday you should be buying a $30 cake and blowing some candles, not spending enough money to buy a truck, for one day of fun. Rich girls like her send people the wrong message about what a normal lifestyle looks like.

An example is that in New York there are twice as many women as men because all these women move to New York hoping to marry a Wall Street banker. In earlier ages, woman could work 14 hour days at a factory and feel perfectly grateful and happy that they had kids and a husband at home. Now you have a whole crowd of people that want BMWs while working less than 5 hours a day.

menina · Accepted Answer

That's really scary and extremely sad. I suppose that women in the US are feeling more pressured. More concerned about the state of the country or even the state of the world.

Or in some cases, it might have to do with abortion laws. Or even poverty and unemployment.

Suicide should be more discussed so it could be prevented. It's still a taboo in most countries.

CalmUntilAbused · Accepted Answer

Well... Apparently, people are realizing en masse that we've entered a dark period in human history, and women began to catch up to men in this regard. As for the causes of this, I think most have been said for the general problem of suicides, but in the exact case of women, I cannot stress enough how the systemic abuse of men led to a situation when men have a tendency to avoid women, and thus perfectly fine women have trouble finding partners. I think it's the most cruel result of the smear campaign against men, a global one. It's also a grim reminder that our actions can have unpredictable consequences, what was supposed to make women feel safer basically cut some of them off of interactions with men, resulting in lowering their will to live.

rigmarole · Accepted Answer

Look at marriage rates. What's happening with marriage rates of Millennials (27-42 years old)? Women dream of getting married and having families since they are little girls. They are very dependent on other's people attention. Without it they get very depressed and fell lonely. Eventually their opportunity window to have children runs out. In contrast men tend to be healthier and happier without the burden of marriage and kids. They are less stressed out. Thus men's suicides in that are range are dropping while women's are rising.

lightbulb27 · Answer

don't know. of what I see and hear... there isn't good support out there... hard to get at times.

if don't have support at home.

use social media wrongly... relationships go bad.

things go bad fast... hopeless.

We need Jesus...

bededazzle · Answer

hmm women have typically used less violent means (pills instead of guns). i wonder if something has changed here. women also tend to seek support. i guess feelings of emptiness must be on the rise. it sounds trite, but i think social media could definitely factor in.

Drewtate · Answer

Generally women attempt suicide more than men but they are less successful so there are more overall male suicides.

The reason most suicidal women fail is the methods they use such as overdosing. I would reason the 4% extra female suicide victims are women who have found a more surer way of ending it all.

LiamJHayden · Answer

The pressure of life / loss of hope. Hopefully not the start of a long term trend.

Of course men are still far more likely to so this.

"The gender gap remained wide in 2022, with 23.1 deaths per 100,000 men and 5.9 deaths per 100,000 women. Elderly men were at especially high risk: Among men ages 75 and older, the suicide rate (43.7 deaths per 100,000) was roughly twice as high as for young males ages 15 to 24 (21.6 deaths per 100,000)."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-29/suicides-in-u-s-reached-new-high-in-2022

OlderAndWiser · Answer

Do the fentanyl deaths count as suicides? If so, how do the statistics look if they are not included?

BCRanger10 · Answer

The rejection of God from people's lives, drugs and other addictions, not being (or at least not feeling) loved by family and friends, not having family or friends, not feeling like they have a purpose, general anxiety about the state of the world... the list could go on and on.

HighValue · Answer

Even with the increase for women, it still isn't nearly equal. What happened to equality?  Seriously, I'm not concerned at all. I have no sympathy for them.

genericname85 · Answer

policy decisions around covid fucked the economy really bad. bad economy plus social deprivation is the best recipe for depression and depression is what makes people kill themself. it's collateral damage from political missconduct.

deus_ex_sisyphus · Answer

Thats tragic, but given the timeframe, I'd wager COVID was a factor

RealMarek · Answer

A lot of Millennial women chose not to have children to “save the planet.” By middle age, the consequences to women who don’t have children are emotional disturbance similar to PTSD. Turns out working for the man isn’t so fulfilling after all.

Paul09 · Answer

Well first mental health is not taken serious enough. Second the stress of life, everything in life is getting more and more expensive. Third sever depression because of all the b. s. More people, more problems, more single people not finding someone etc.

Anonymous · Answer

Women are independent now and starting to find out what it's like to be a man. There's expectations. They're not used to that.

Likewise men are remaining single. Ergo since they don't have a partner they're a lot less stressed. And have less expectations on them. Just the normal responsibilities of being a man. And he is used to that.

Anonymous · Answer

Millennials are just so ungrateful for all the wonderful things we gave their generation.

Anonymous · Answer

Don’t know but seems like it’s always been more women for some reason

wolfcat87 · Answer

Social media is putting even more pressure on women, cheating is up, STD rates are up, real relationships are down. It's a cold, dark word out there...

Staximus · Answer

What's going on is society and all the bullshit

AngryCarl2 · Answer

That's odd. Maybe they were pregnant? Suicides among pregnant women were quite common in the early half of the last century, which appears to be where the US is headed.

Jersey2 · Answer

Biden’s America.

ThrillSeeker01 · Answer

It's mostly older men, though.

Cheerfull009 · Answer

What is the reason, suicide rate is much higher in rich and advance country as compared with poor, developing countries, like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, can any American answer this?

DextroShade · Answer

Most suicides are men so this is a move towards equality!

Fuentes · Answer

Bidens America is what happen

Anonymous · Answer

Mental health is getting worse

jimmy2 · Answer

The economy is so bad people lose hope No hope in Jesus no hope in life

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