[skr]

Spiritual crisis, nation-wide

[Shadow44]

Social capital and communities have been obliterated. People don’t have the support networks they did in previous generations. Combine that with a sense of purposelessness and terrible economic conditions and no wonder people despair.

[junta]

Feminism good for box wine sales awful for women

[txrefugee]

Jesus says, “What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world,but loses his own soul?” (Mark 8:36)

[HangnJudge]

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Matthew 6:33

The people are being drawn away from first things

[tflabo]

Throw in dysfunctional families broken apart by high divorce rates.
Compare with the rural Amish community and statistics.

[BitWielder1]

Overmedication of psychotropic drugs.

[ReaganGeneration2]

“Of course the authorities are at a loss as to how to solve this crisis.“

Not one mention of religion.

Then the author turns it into a battle against poverty and male lack of complassion for it.

However, all the data is pre-Trump. 3.3 million Americans have gotten off food stamps since February 2017.

[McGavin999]

People work too hard, there is nothing left when you get home. You sleep in on Sunday instead of going to church. People get married later and may or may not have children. Women work and are as tired as their husbands. They plop down in front of the TV and instead of lighthearted comedy that relieves stress they get ugly nasty programming that insists you are a bad person unless you hate Trump.

We need God. We need to recognize that.

[fso301]

Sun avoidance may also play a role.

[Flick Lives]

CDC says that the suicide rate in the United States has risen by 34 percent since the year 2000.

That's a pretty alarming statistic. Likely a combination of effects, including overprescribing medications that are supposed to cure depression. Basically bandaids over underlying mental problems.

A media that endlessly bleats how bad things are and now has taken to bleating how bad Americans are is also to blame. One can't be barraged day and night by the media about every day being the end of the world without it causing a corrosive effect on ones well being. I see the ill effects with some media-addicted friends.

[allendale]

The rise in the suicide rate parallels the rise in the use of illegal drugs. Scrambling the human brain with alien chemicals is not consistent with mental health. Just another consequence of hedonistic epicurean behavior.

[Daveinyork]

I think all the entertainment media create unrealistic expectations. I can relate to that.

During the 1970’s, TV shows portrayed people living unrealistic lifestyles. One that had an influence on me was the TV show Banecek. He was middle aged, rich, dated beautiful women, drove a 1941 Packard roadster, lived in a mansion in Boston. I wanted to live like that.

As a result, I didn’t marry until I was 53. I lived pretty well, bought a historic townhouse, was self employed, dated some beautiful women, but never for very long, and I have had several convertibles, but I often experienced long periods of time between relationships.

Fortunately, my unrealistic expectations did not make me suicidal, but I can see how they might do that in some people.

Also, fortunately, I changed some of my priorities, and met the love of my life, with whom I have been married for the best fifteen years of my life. As a result of influenza induced encephalitis, I’ve become disabled, had to sell my accounting practice, and review my goals.

People need to constantly review what they want out of life and whether that is realist, and if the entertainment media are showing unrealistic lifestyles.

Also some patience is required in attaining goals. Perceived failure is not a reason for suicide, it should be viewed as a learning experience. Most successful people have suffered many failures and setbacks, and learned from them.

Also, I recently obtained the whole Banecek series on DVD. I’ve realized how unhappy I would be living like him.

[I want the USA back]

TV, entertainment and smartphones do not equal happiness. What is missing is human interaction and trust. I see teenagers walking around like zombies, staring at the damn thing in their hands, trying desperately to avoid interacting with the people around them. Thanks to crime, people don’t trust people who they don’t know.

Human interaction is missing. Trust is missing. There is no public square, where people mingled, shopped, talked and interacted. Facebook is not a substitute for it.

In an isolationist society like this one, yes, many people are unhappy. You cannot act against human nature and be happy.

[mjp]

Instead, what people really need is to find meaning and purpose in life, and that is not something that big government is going to provide.

Leftardism destroys minds with their war against reality and reason. When one's mind is destroyed, one seeks to escape from awareness, to obliterate one's consciousness, and to eliminate oneself from existence.

[PIF]

Men in high places are even beating themselves to death ...

[Newbomb Turk]

Lack of real meaningful human interaction. Speaking from my situation, my kids are grown up, married with kids of their own. Wife left and is on her third marriage. Don’t really have many friends outside work and the gym. I can see why people commit suicide.

It crosses my mind every day

[Chode]

women, suicide rates were highest among those who work in arts, design, entertainment, sports and media.

because their art sucks, nobody wants their designs, entertainment is based on their looks/cleavage which is fleeting, sports talent which is even more so and entertainment where God knows what that means unless it's the escort business and media get aged out also and they're left as barren cat farmers led astray by the empty promises of radical feminism maybe???

naaa... toxic masculinity i'm sure

[Cen-Tejas]

If I were to just blame LIBERALISM, I wouldn’t be far wrong, to wit:

1. I’m depressed over what Liberals have done to the Boy Scouts.
2. I’m depressed over what Liberals have done to the entertainment industry.
3. I’m depressed over Liberals controlling ALL the alphabet media.
4. I’m depressed over Liberals turning Colorado into a Liberal State with it’s number one priority being homosexual issues.
5. I’m depressed that not one show on the hundreds of channels on the TV I used to watch has a currently produced Andy Griffith/Barney Fife/Opie type show on it.
6. I’m depressed that my daughter’s and grand-daughters have to worry about some pervert walking into the bathroom with them.
7. I’m depressed over women being raped with impunity by Muslims in advanced radical liberal countries. Are WE far behind?

I could go on and on and on and on ENDLESSLY. But, you get the point. If Suicide is UP then Liberalism is to blame! Period.

[HangnJudge]

Good discussion on this on ZeroHedge

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-16/middle-class-destroyed-suicide-rates-soar-among-american-workers