Disaster Suicide rates on rise in US, CDC reports - Increased by more than 25% since 1999

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/06/07/suicide-rates-on-rise-in-us-cdc-reports.html

Hours after a medical examiner ruled Kate Spade’s death a suicide by hanging [OP's note, This link is from Fox News, I added it for context purposes], the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a harrowing study revealing suicide rates are on the rise in nearly every state. According to the data, nearly 45,000 Americans age 10 or older died by suicide in 2016, making it the 10th leading cause of death.

The study noted that suicide is rarely caused by a single factor, and found more than half of cases involved a person who did not have a known mental health condition.

“This is a major public health problem but we know that prevention programs work and can be effective in reducing this tragedy,” Dr. Anne Schuchat, CDC principal deputy director, told Fox News.

Schuchat said the data analyzed revealed a number of factors leading up to death by suicide, including economic woes, relationship issues, substance misuse, physical health problems and others. Firearms were revealed to be the most common method of suicide by those with and without a known mental illness.

The highest rise was seen in western states, with an over 57 percent increase recorded in North Dakota. Twenty-five states saw an increase of more than 30 percent.

“We do see increases in suicide associated with economic downturns, and it can take a long time for the recovery to kick in,” Schuchat said. “We can see suicide rates improve slower than the economy.”

The study also comes a day after Netflix announced plans for a third season of its hit series “13 Reasons Why,” which focuses on a high schooler’s suicide. The show also deals with bullying, rape, gun violence and substance abuse. The series includes content warnings before the start of some episodes, as well as directives to contact suicide hotlines by the series’ actors.


At least one mother has blamed the series for her own daughter’s suicide attempt.

Netflix’s CEO defended the company’s decision to bring the show back for a third season, citing it’s popularity and success.

“It’s engaging content,” Reed Hastings said, according to Business Insider. “It is controversial. But nobody has to watch it.”

Schuchat said that suicide is a national issue, and that no one community is immune. Spade’s death on Tuesday marked the third fashion icon to have died by hanging in recent years, following L’Wren Scott’s 2014 death, and Alexander McQueen’s in 2010.

“We saw higher increases among middle-aged people, but we did see increases in younger people and older people – essentially every age group other than those over age 75 saw increasing rates of suicide during this time period,” Schuchat said.

The CDC recommends that states take a comprehensive public health approach to suicide prevention, and that everyone remain vigilant about possible warning signs.

 

[Nobunaga]

Who cares about mental health, just ban guns and ronald drumpf and problem solved
But in all seriousnes Mental health has always been a joke, hopefully that changes in the near future

 

[TwinGirl]

this is because the whole world is sucking at an equal rate of growth.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

nearly 45,000 Americans age 10 or older died by suicide in 2016

WHY ARE THERE CHILDREN KILLING THEMSELVES

 

[ES 148]

Oh look a global statistic also applies to a large country
How very surprising

 

[spiritofamermaid]

Surely this isn't from the fear-mongering that the media has contributed heavily to, right? I mean, they're merely warning us as the fine press is supposed to!

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

WHY ARE THERE CHILDREN KILLING THEMSELVES

Childhood mental illness is a thing unfortunately

 

[Antipathy]

Poor mental health care is probably the reason for most of the hot button media issues.
Troons, school shootings, all the spergs in politics...

Granted, mental health care is hard and the mind is poorly understood. I'd say just throw money at research but we gotta cure GRIDS first.

 

[sperginity]

WHY ARE THERE CHILDREN KILLING THEMSELVES

Crazy doesn't wait for puberty. Some kids aren't crazy but their lives are torture for whatever reason. Some kids are copying things they've seen on TV or the internet without the understanding of the consequence (it's very hard to tell if those were accidental after the fact).

 

[frozenrunner]

WHY ARE THERE CHILDREN KILLING THEMSELVES

Social media: now you don't even get a break from bullying and other peer pressure when you're away from school.

 

[BubbleButt]

Well now I don't feel so alone, we should start a suicide club

 

[OhGoy]

This is what happens when things like this:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...luntary-hospitalization-medical-bill/4778897/
...happen on a daily basis.

we all know that (((they))) are responsible for this

 

[Ruin]

All women are heartless bitches who just want men's money!
All men are rapists who prey on women!
All white people are horrible genocidal racists!
All Latinos are thieves and illegal immigrants!
All black people are rapists and murderers!

Seems to me like decades of pitting the American people against each other for political gain has created a hostile lonely world where no one trusts or cares for one another.

Good job political/media hacks.

 

[Draza]

Most of them are men.

 

[ZeCommissar]

The world has always been shit. It used to be that when you stub your toe and got a infection you could fucking die from it, or soldiers would rape women in ancient days like a national pastime.

But the modern world is shitty too, because everyone seemingly hates one another according to the media, while if you walk down the street and actually talk to people you learn that's not the case.

It doesn't help that we KNOW what mental illness is, and that we don't just call them demons, but it doesn't help that most countries treat it like a joke.

 

[Absolutego]

Poor mental health care is probably the reason for most of the hot button media issues.
Troons, school shootings, all the spergs in politics...

Granted, mental health care is hard and the mind is poorly understood. I'd say just throw money at research but we gotta cure GRIDS first.

I'm gonna be that guy and say while mental health plays a huge role the increase since the 90's is probably because community support networks have dwindled over the past couple decades, particularly with the rise of social media. Internet friends aren't the same thing as real friends and a lot of people are turning to the former as an alternative to the latter, which is driving people into reclusive behavior that leaves them poorly socialized and feeling extremely isolated.

t.Crawled into a bottle for 5 years after leaving all his IRL friends for a shitty town he didn't want to live in and used the internet as a band-aid.

 

[Keystone]

All women are heartless bitches who just want men's money!
All men are rapists who prey on women!
All white people are horrible genocidal racists!
All Latinos are thieves and illegal immigrants!
All black people are rapists and murderers!

Seems to me like decades of pitting the American people against each other for political gain has created a hostile lonely world where no one trusts or cares for one another.

Good job political/media hacks.

But what if 1 out of those 5 things is actually correct?

 

[Nazi vegeta]

I also think that guns, do make things easier, for whoever is thinking about suicide.
All it takes is the press of a trigger and it's over. Definitely less scary than any other method in my opinion.

So add factors like: emargination, solitude, depression, poverty, fearmongering and you've got a big mess on your hands.

 

[CIA Nigger]

It's almost like leaving kids in front of an electronic babysitter, giving them drugs (either hormones, SSRIs, or antidepressants), and letting them grow up to be internet addicts with no future besides flipping burgers is a recipe for depression.

 

[vhstape]

What's the growth in tranny numbers since 1999?