What can be done about the male suicide rate, and why is it treated as either a joke or not that big of a deal? (Page 2)

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In the UK 12 men die daily to suicide. In the US 129 men die per day due to suicide. More than 4 times the rate of women.  - The age-adjusted suicide rate in 2017 was 14.0 per 100,000 individuals. - The rate of suicide is highest in middle-aged white men in particular. - In 2017, men died by suicide 3.54x more often than women. - On average, there are 129 suicides per day. - White males accounted for 69.67% of suicide deaths in 2017. - In 2017, firearms accounted for 50.57% of all suicide deaths. My question is what can we do to combat it? Society puts so much pressure on men to be the protectors, the providers, the super hero.. And we live in a society where traditionally masculine things are called toxic, Where every action we make is seen as harmful. In a world where you are seen as the enemy if you have a penis between your legs, its no wonder it happens as often as it does.  Additionally mental health lines, suicide hot lines, domestic violence hotlines are all geared toward women. Its an incredibly rare thing to see a counselor that actually knows how to help guys (in my case i lucked out and found one)..   “Only women, children and dogs are loved unconditionally. A man is only loved under the condition that he provide something.” — Chris Rock

Romolo · Answer

High male suicide rate is shocking and unacceptable. I am aware of 6 cases just in my community since 2016. Reaching out to men in stressful times could be a start. (Firearm 4) (hanging 1) (other 1)

Ironlak282 · Answer

Encourage a society that is more empathetic towards other peoples problems. We have greatly improved from the past but we still have a lot of work to do.

Anonymous · Answer

It's definitely not okay that anybody takes their own lives but in my opinion it's even more appalling that the number of women, men, and animals, unnecessarily murdered daily is well into the hundreds we can only do what we can and pray that it works
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Daylight7550 · Answer

I think something that isn't said too often is when genders cry.

To society, a woman crying tugs at our hearts.

A man crying doesn't tug at any emotions. Males and females will be reluctant to even go near the crying male.

AynonOMouse · Answer

Society doesn't care because it is White men dying. If it was Black men, or gay men then it would be all over the media and effort would be made to counter it, but since it is White men dying society is glad in the USA.

Likes2drive · Answer

I guess that’s no surprise because society puts a lot of pressure on us and now it will probably go up because of the virus

COMMODOREII · Answer

No one wants to believe it exists or the tell you to man up. I would have been a part of those statistics.

Jennifer_34 · Answer

Nothing can be done because society will never truly change. Men by nature are expendable and society will always ignore men's issues.  Sad brutal truth

Celtero · Answer

Unfortunately talking about how nobody cares won't make people care. It's not particularly in human nature to care about men.

TheFlak38 · Answer

Because men are always treated as expendable people. That's why MGTOW is constantly growing.

esotericstory · Answer

Before anything that can be done about it we must break through the feminist dominant ideology. Because feminism has a monopoly on equality, we can't actually do anything about it because we are stuck into the prejudices of the dominant ideology.

Gedaria · Answer

It is extremely sad , but a lot of people cannot see any other way out. I've been there. You get so worked up with in your self you end up going down a one way street and at the end is death the only way to cure your pain..

Owen3 · Answer

Just my opinion I think guys make more bad decisions than females which get some and fines and they struggle more in line to the point of nothing

Miristheiss · Answer

Femanism stresses only female issues matter. Men are mostly bad. Any stress on male issues is anti woman

Dchrls78104 · Answer

Try actually treating men like human beings and listening to them.

DrippingHoney · Answer

I wish I had an answer

Anonymous · Answer

Clean up toxic masculinity and clean up toxic feminism. Once you get rid of those two things will be a lot better.

codyccc · Answer

Duck tape fully automatic weapons to there hands and give them a mix of cocaine and hallucinogenic drugs and lock them in a large chruch full of people

OddBeMe · Answer

Liberals would like to make it harder for them to buy guns. Isn’t that something?

Anonymous · Answer

That’s because men aren’t sapost to ask for help or go to therapy it’s seen as weak and there afraid there get made fun of or something I don't know

Ratmuffin · Answer

I don't know. I've survived death twice. The second time was pill overdose from speedballing. The first time i was legally dead but it wasn't suicide.

Jack9949 · Answer

We need men to be open about themselves. They only kill themselves because they feel like its expected of them to no share their emotions.

AlainD1991 · Answer

We are expected to be tough and manly even though in reality we are sissies, society's pressure pushes men into suicide.

Hotboy_booblover · Answer

I thought people are depressed in my country only..

Anonymous · Answer

The flu kills way more men every day. This is a nothingburger.

1828avaava1828 · Answer

😞 😢  needs to be addressed

DDmggrl · Answer

Awesome post. Spread the truth.

Handysandy69 · Answer

Because no one cares about us "men"

Anonymous · Answer

I think about it from time to time..

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