Almost as if they have cultivated a society that is completely unappealing to be forced to live in.
Living in Georgia. Lost my mom to it earlier this year but she’s older. Several people from my school have as well. Can confirm things are not great down here.
I mean I don’t recall living in a time with this much constant existential dread….
Honestly probably after effects from the covid isolation and lockdown
Brainrot and rage bait replacing meaningful human experiences.
Living in Alabama specifically, I have two coworkers who had close family members die by suicide. One was a brother, the other was a mother’s only son. Trauma runs very deep down here. I can’t help but feel simultaneous emotions of sadness and strength knowing I survived more than one time in my life where I comptemplated suicide, yet I know people second-hand who weren’t able to.
You want to know the common denominators that I’ve seen? Poverty, loneliness and isolation, family trauma, and complete disregard by the government to provide resources for the mentally unwell past pushing religion.
I didn’t read the paywall article, but my guess is that the decline of mental health is related to the constant bombardment of bad news, and negativity of social media.
The average person earning an average wage cannot afford to pay the rent and put food on the table, much less deal with everyday emergencies like sickness, injury, etc. The birth rate is dropping because young people can’t afford to feed themselves, much less kids. It’s a never-ending struggle to survive, with no end in sight.
We have reached late-stage capitalism, where the 1% own everything, and the rest of us are their slaves. And they are perfectly fine with letting a large chunk of their slaves starve.
There is simply no hope left in America for a sizeable part of society. A rise in the suicide rate is only to be expected.
I don’t think it’s hard to figure out why.
I am old and when I was in my 20’s my wife and I (and numerous friends and relatives) could comfortably afford to buy a home on two incomes from “regular” jobs or rent from one income.
Now the under 40’s are in a never ending struggle to make ends meet and are one emergency away from disaster
not to minimize the issue at all, the good news is this trend depends on your granularity. over the last ten years suicide is up, but from 2021 to 2023 (most recent data I have) things have been trending down! it’s not great but it’s a start
From my lens, it’s part COVID, part a soft generation, and part the generation that raised them failed. We can blame it all we want on politics, most before us had it roughly, and didn’t do much except teach themselves resiliency and how to make it in whatever time is current to them.
There’s more to it obviously, but there’s my 2cents
Im in North Dakota and cannot explain this
Being a young men right now is got to feel hopeless.
We’re not meant to absorb the tragedies of 7 billion people.
Every second of every day someone out there is being murdered, drugged out, bombed, starved, raped, trafficked, laid off, divorced, etc… and we have instant access to all of it at our finger tips.
The psychological damage is low dose but deeply chronic. This type of danger has been been seen before in human history.
Protect and educate yourself and your kids, limit the toxins that they consume.
This isn’t just a young adult problem, it’s been a millennial problem for a while and no one’s been talking about it.
Damn, I almost pumped up California’s numbers.
Too much time on Reddit and social media keeps the mind fixated on doom and gloom.
Almost like we’re ushering forth a dystopian nightmare or something.
No Job security, no time for a relationship, your either worrying about your job or stressed because you need to find a job.
Of course the top comment is a reference to existential dread and unprecedented times. This is a harmful and shallow response to what is a very concerning statistic.
I do believe these are uncertain times and I do believe there are genuine stressors that include economic mobility, war, and access to healthcare. BUT, this does not come close to fully explaining a rise in suicide rates.
I’d unprecedented times were the main driver, then humans should have offed themselves off a long, long time ago. 100 years ago we were in squalor factory conditions, world wars, high child mortality rates, minimum protections (and outright hostility) for women and minorities, high risk of death from diseases (polio) and empires collapsing (Ottoman empire). You can do this for every century.
If anyone is reading this thread and is experiencing depression, please, please seek help. All I ask is that you don’t self-validate your suffering on someone’s lazy assessment of your pain.
When you compete for fragility, someone will win.
I mean, I’m not young (30s), but I’m prepared for my own once I can’t afford my four pillars, or we enter civil war II, whichever comes first. We’re getting close with the prices of food and goods. If I cannot afford to eat, why live?
Feminism and it’s consequences…
Whoa, so the people who firebombed Japan and stockpiled 30k doomsday weapons didn’t build a positive, sustainable future for their children?
*surprised Pikachu*
The color scheme on that chart is awful. Can’t tell them difference between a little bit more suicide, or a little less
Living in a world in zero economic mobility, high youth unemployment, vitriol and intolerance, and agency to change things. It is as it was designed. If only to be born Gen-X or before and not xennial, millennial, or Z. Meanwhile the boomers and Xers constantly gas-light and dismiss the woes.
Every generation is gonna have a harder time getting a job. Degrees dont matter anymore. Spend 4 years in college and wait another 4 years (if you’re even lucky) to get a job that relates to what you studied. The world is overpopulated as is. For every job theres thousands of applicants and just 1 is needed. Even working minimum wage will barely cut it. Cost of living is rising. The world will only get more expensive. Most people cant even afford 1 child to take care of let alone themselves. I see no surprise in this
I really hate that the negative and positive look almost the same. Why does every graph using two shades of colors pick two that are so close together?
It does look slightly better on the actual site but I still need to highlight the state to be sure.
It’s just easier to stop living than to keep suffering constantly in the modern world.
I mean, recent grads are having a hard time getting a job in their field, staying underemployed. I don’t feel like I have a future. Of course this is a reasonable option. I’m not surprised.
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Almost as if they have cultivated a society that is completely unappealing to be forced to live in.
Living in Georgia. Lost my mom to it earlier this year but she’s older. Several people from my school have as well. Can confirm things are not great down here.
I mean I don’t recall living in a time with this much constant existential dread….
Honestly probably after effects from the covid isolation and lockdown
Brainrot and rage bait replacing meaningful human experiences.
Living in Alabama specifically, I have two coworkers who had close family members die by suicide. One was a brother, the other was a mother’s only son. Trauma runs very deep down here. I can’t help but feel simultaneous emotions of sadness and strength knowing I survived more than one time in my life where I comptemplated suicide, yet I know people second-hand who weren’t able to.
You want to know the common denominators that I’ve seen? Poverty, loneliness and isolation, family trauma, and complete disregard by the government to provide resources for the mentally unwell past pushing religion.
I didn’t read the paywall article, but my guess is that the decline of mental health is related to the constant bombardment of bad news, and negativity of social media.
The average person earning an average wage cannot afford to pay the rent and put food on the table, much less deal with everyday emergencies like sickness, injury, etc. The birth rate is dropping because young people can’t afford to feed themselves, much less kids. It’s a never-ending struggle to survive, with no end in sight.
We have reached late-stage capitalism, where the 1% own everything, and the rest of us are their slaves. And they are perfectly fine with letting a large chunk of their slaves starve.
There is simply no hope left in America for a sizeable part of society. A rise in the suicide rate is only to be expected.
I don’t think it’s hard to figure out why.
I am old and when I was in my 20’s my wife and I (and numerous friends and relatives) could comfortably afford to buy a home on two incomes from “regular” jobs or rent from one income.
Now the under 40’s are in a never ending struggle to make ends meet and are one emergency away from disaster
not to minimize the issue at all, the good news is this trend depends on your granularity. over the last ten years suicide is up, but from 2021 to 2023 (most recent data I have) things have been trending down! it’s not great but it’s a start
https://preview.redd.it/qs7bx3czzntf1.jpeg?width=1188&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08c9b0cac4cc6ce6c5cb104476227798b9224b49
From my lens, it’s part COVID, part a soft generation, and part the generation that raised them failed. We can blame it all we want on politics, most before us had it roughly, and didn’t do much except teach themselves resiliency and how to make it in whatever time is current to them.
There’s more to it obviously, but there’s my 2cents
Im in North Dakota and cannot explain this
Being a young men right now is got to feel hopeless.
We’re not meant to absorb the tragedies of 7 billion people.
Every second of every day someone out there is being murdered, drugged out, bombed, starved, raped, trafficked, laid off, divorced, etc… and we have instant access to all of it at our finger tips.
The psychological damage is low dose but deeply chronic. This type of danger has been been seen before in human history.
Protect and educate yourself and your kids, limit the toxins that they consume.
This isn’t just a young adult problem, it’s been a millennial problem for a while and no one’s been talking about it.
Damn, I almost pumped up California’s numbers.
Too much time on Reddit and social media keeps the mind fixated on doom and gloom.
Almost like we’re ushering forth a dystopian nightmare or something.
No Job security, no time for a relationship, your either worrying about your job or stressed because you need to find a job.
Of course the top comment is a reference to existential dread and unprecedented times. This is a harmful and shallow response to what is a very concerning statistic.
I do believe these are uncertain times and I do believe there are genuine stressors that include economic mobility, war, and access to healthcare. BUT, this does not come close to fully explaining a rise in suicide rates.
I’d unprecedented times were the main driver, then humans should have offed themselves off a long, long time ago. 100 years ago we were in squalor factory conditions, world wars, high child mortality rates, minimum protections (and outright hostility) for women and minorities, high risk of death from diseases (polio) and empires collapsing (Ottoman empire). You can do this for every century.
If anyone is reading this thread and is experiencing depression, please, please seek help. All I ask is that you don’t self-validate your suffering on someone’s lazy assessment of your pain.
When you compete for fragility, someone will win.
I mean, I’m not young (30s), but I’m prepared for my own once I can’t afford my four pillars, or we enter civil war II, whichever comes first. We’re getting close with the prices of food and goods. If I cannot afford to eat, why live?
Feminism and it’s consequences…
Whoa, so the people who firebombed Japan and stockpiled 30k doomsday weapons didn’t build a positive, sustainable future for their children?
*surprised Pikachu*
The color scheme on that chart is awful. Can’t tell them difference between a little bit more suicide, or a little less
Living in a world in zero economic mobility, high youth unemployment, vitriol and intolerance, and agency to change things. It is as it was designed. If only to be born Gen-X or before and not xennial, millennial, or Z. Meanwhile the boomers and Xers constantly gas-light and dismiss the woes.
Every generation is gonna have a harder time getting a job. Degrees dont matter anymore. Spend 4 years in college and wait another 4 years (if you’re even lucky) to get a job that relates to what you studied. The world is overpopulated as is. For every job theres thousands of applicants and just 1 is needed. Even working minimum wage will barely cut it. Cost of living is rising. The world will only get more expensive. Most people cant even afford 1 child to take care of let alone themselves. I see no surprise in this
I really hate that the negative and positive look almost the same. Why does every graph using two shades of colors pick two that are so close together?
It does look slightly better on the actual site but I still need to highlight the state to be sure.
It’s just easier to stop living than to keep suffering constantly in the modern world.
I mean, recent grads are having a hard time getting a job in their field, staying underemployed. I don’t feel like I have a future. Of course this is a reasonable option. I’m not surprised.
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