Attention "Dead white men"

[Telstra]

"age 45 to 54" are at very high risk of dying in the US
I wonder it is the same in Canada, Aust and UK ?

 

[Vannie]

I'm afraid to finish my coffee.

 

[rareboy]

Drugs, alcohol and suicide.

And andropause.

Oh and obesity.

The chickens come home to roost.

 

[peeonme]

In the USA we have legal dope dealers getting men hooked on opiates and making huge profits for doing so. We have a horrible lack of access to mental health care, soaring insurance rates and a crumbling family structure so many have no support group around them.
My cousin was about 55 when he took his life. He was an alcoholic and drug abuser, he overdosed on his own prescription... the empty bottle which had held his pills was next to him when his sister found him. I am not surprised that the suicide rate for white men has risen. The baby boomer men for the most part have led a charmed life. This looks good on the outside, but leaves them ill equipped to deal with stress and the problems that face us as we become senior citizens.
https://psychcentral.com/news/2016/...en-have-highest-suicide-rate-in-us/97289.html

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Why Older White Men Have Highest Suicide Rate in US
Why Older White Men Have Highest Suicide Rate in US
By Traci Pedersen
~ 1 min read

Older Caucasian men have significantly higher suicide rates than any other demographic group in the United States. There lies a cultural story behind this fact, not just one of individual pain and despair, according to the research of Colorado State University social psychologist Dr. Silvia Sara Canetto.

Canetto has spent a large portion of her career investigating suicide as it relates to culture. Her research shows that while older white men have higher suicide rates, they experience fewer burdens associated with aging.

For example, they are less likely to experience widowhood and have better physical health and fewer disabilities than older women. They also have more economic resources than ethnic minority older men, and than older women across all ethnicities.

It appears then that white older men may be less psychologically equipped to deal with the normal challenges of aging, most likely because of their privilege up until late adulthood, Canetto asserts. Their suicide rates are significantly higher than those of older men of African, Latino, or Indigenous descent, as well as relative to older women across ethnicities

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If we grow up and live life thinking that it should be 'fun and games' only to find that it is not, it can be quite a shock.

It speaks volumes that most mass shootings are done by angry white males. The good life might not be the best life.

 

[NotHardUp1]

This isn't a new phenomenon. I remember a pastor preaching on this two decades ago. In particular, retired men who were career oriented hive higher odds, as they often have no clue how to be people after having their self-esteem based in their jobs for decades.

 

[Thad1527]

And nobody talked about it.

Well, now they do.
https://bringchange2mind.org/learn/psas/strongerthanstigma/

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

 

[peeonme]

And nobody talked about it.

Well, now they do.
https://bringchange2mind.org/learn/psas/strongerthanstigma/

That is an excellent link, thanks for sharing.