Posted on 04/22/2016 6:26:35 AM PDT by huldah1776
Middle-aged white people now account for a third of all suicides in the U.S., a new government report shows.
Suicide is the nation's 10th leading cause of death, and the overall rate rose 24 percent in 15 years, according to the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Suicides have long been most common among white people particularly older white males. But most striking in the new report is the growth in whites ages 45 to 64.
They were a third of suicide deaths in 2014, up from about a quarter in 1999.
"The findings in this report are extremely concerning," said Nadine Kaslow, an Emory University researcher and past president of the American Psychological Association.
The CDC data released Friday provides a detailed look at the latest year's suicide statistics, and a broader look at how much the situation has changed over 15 years.
There were nearly 43,000 U.S. suicides in 2014. More than 14,000 of them were middle-aged whites twice the combined total for all blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Pacific Islanders, American Indians, and Alaska Natives.
In other terms a group that represents 18 percent of the U.S. population accounted for 33 percent of the suicides.
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I’ve noticed quite a few more “died at home” obituaries in the papers since Obama took office.
Wonder how many were “cleaning his gun when it went off” accidents.
“Acting recklessly. (If you live near a military base and see a boot on a crotch rocket—send up a prayer for them. You probably won’t be able to catch up to them in your VW)”
Riding like a fool might be more appropriate. Being on a bike is by no means suicidal, in fact riding is one of the best activities I have to beat depression. I won’t burden you with details but the last few years have been very tough for me. Don’t know what I would do without my “therapy rides”. There’s a saying amount bikers that you never see a motorcycle in from of a psychiatrist’s office.
Great post, thanks. Having a nephew take his life a few years back really makes me know how important it is to intervene when you see the symptoms.
This is good news for liberals—why not cheer? /s
I’ll bet if you look at the numbers it correspondents to a rise in prescription anti-depressants.
Excellent post.
Somebody else said that too, but who’s to say more people aren’t on medication for the same reasons more people are killing themselves? Or that the rate of suicide wouldn’t be sky high if they WEREN’T on meds. There’s some evidence of higher suicidal ideation in adolescents on antis but I don’t think it extends to the adult population.
Bingo!
side effects, thoughts of suicide.
A rabid one.
Excellent post. The most insidious aspect of what you point out, is that it’s entirely by design. It’s all part of the plans for complete control of a *glorious* one world government, where every need is covered, no one will lack (no matter how undeserving), but EVERY detail and move a person makes is monitored and controlled.
Everyone is perceptive and correct in listing out the many causes of this.
Remember the root cause: the devil infecting more and more souls.
“Dont know what I would do without my therapy rides.”
You and me both!
The whole article must be purchased but it’s posted on a forum... The part about dying isn’t INDIVIDUALS, it is towns.
“Nothing happened to them. There wasnt some awful disaster. There wasnt a war or a famine or a plague or a foreign occupation. Even the economic changes of the past few decades do very little to explain the dysfunction and negligence and the incomprehensible malice of poor white America. So the gypsum business in Garbutt aint what it used to be. There is more to life in the 21st century than wallboard and cheap sentimentality about how the Man closed the factories down.
The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible. Forget all your cheap theatrical Bruce Springsteen crap. Forget your sanctimony about struggling Rust Belt factory towns and your conspiracy theories about the wily Orientals stealing our jobs. Forget your goddamned gypsum, and, if he has a problem with that, forget Ed Burke, too. The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Donald Trumps speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin. What they need isnt analgesics, literal or political. They need real opportunity, which means that they need real change, which means that they need U-Haul.”
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=198401.0
Active members feel betrayed.
Support, hope, and NEVER giving up.
I find this depressing...
For men, betrayal is extremely damaging. Respect is crucial and the left hate people.
Anyone who says that is a follower of Satan whether they know it or not. That pissed me off so bad.
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