Almost as if they have cultivated a society that is completely unappealing to be forced to live in.
mitchsusername on
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.
mr_mcpoogrundle on
I mean I don’t recall living in a time with this much constant existential dread….
razorbacks3129 on
Honestly probably after effects from the covid isolation and lockdown
Foxs-In-A-Trenchcoat on
Brainrot and rage bait replacing meaningful human experiences.
TheDeathOfAStar on
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.
No_Explorer721 on
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.
kirradoodle on
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.
SpellingJenius on
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
dustydinkleman01 on
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 in the last two years 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
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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 in the last two years 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