Suicide now kills more Americans than car crashes

[Guest]

Suicide now kills more Americans than car crashes

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From 2000 to 2009, the death rate for suicide ticked up 15 percent while it decreased 25 percent for car wrecks, the study found. Improved traffic safety measures might be responsible for the decline in car-crash deaths. As such, the researchers said similar attention and resources are needed to prevent suicide and other injury-related mortality.

While this isn't transgender related it does show a new trend. Too often suicidal people and mental issues are ignored because they are not seen until it is too late. Just because no one can see mental illness doesn;t mean that it is not there. Suicidal threats must always be taken seriously.

Laura

[VickySGV]

This is indeed very sobering information, regrettably my family has contributed to the suicide statistics in multiple separate instances, and deals regularly with a member who has frequent suicidal ideation episodes, none of which are taken lightly. Even I myself had a period of personal abuse that upped my chances of dying very greatly, in fact to the point of certainty if other things had not intervened.

The important thing is that open and careing humans be available as resources for a person who feels that their own lives are worthless and unmanageable. We have these resources here in both the Staff and the membership. I would like to think that I can be a resource for someone in that darkness, in time I may get to find out.

Listen carefully, and always make the other party FEEL that you are listening, not out of politeness, or some idea of compensation, but from your heart and with all your love.

[Guest LizMarie]

We live in a society that is more harshly economically stratified than any time in the last 100+ years. We also live in a time of increasingly polarizing dialog between political factions that genuinely strikes fear into the minds of their opponents. And lastly, we live in an increasingly densely populated world. Someone, I think it may have been Robert Heinlein, once noted that any mammal can be driven mad by placing too many of them in too small of a space, and that humans are the only mammals that do this to themselves voluntarily. This is important because in the last decade humanity moved from living primary rural lifestyles worldwide to living primarily urban lifestyles.

There are other issues, such as genetically modified crops that cause health problems, increased exposures to chemicals in workplaces and homes that cause health issues, increasing religious intolerance which treats mental health issues like some kind of 13 century superstitious supernatural phenomenon, increasing police state activities globally... The list goes on. All of these things produce stress. Then add in normal living stress and it can push people over the edge.

[Guest ~Brenda~]

Suicide now kills more Americans than car crashes

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From 2000 to 2009, the death rate for suicide ticked up 15 percent while it decreased 25 percent for car wrecks, the study found. Improved traffic safety measures might be responsible for the decline in car-crash deaths. As such, the researchers said similar attention and resources are needed to prevent suicide and other injury-related mortality.

While this isn't transgender related it does show a new trend. Too often suicidal people and mental issues are ignored because they are not seen until it is too late. Just because no one can see mental illness doesn;t mean that it is not there. Suicidal threats must always be taken seriously.

Laura

Absolutely!! My brother threatened suicide for years before he actually did. Watch out for threats of suicide, especially repeated threats.

[Guest MsGsptlsnz]

Sadly I don't find this suprising at all. Turn on a TV and get deluged with misery and horror. And that's just the Reality TV shows. The news is even worse. I think we need a 3 day waiting period before we can get a TV...