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The article avoids pointing out the obvious, but the map makes it clear this rise is predominantly among white Americans.
Feels awkward posting this but I'll leave it here just in case: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
Nothing akward about that!
Sure, it's awkward to offer a phone number to a stranger or even a friend in crisis, but imagine how things could be if that wasn't the case.
The common response is that "people will just find another way" but that's not supported by evidence.
>“Anything that builds in delay is working in your favor because that fever-pitch time when you’re actually willing to swallow the poison or pull the trigger is often fairly narrow,” said Cathy Barber, who directs a suicide-reduction campaign at the Harvard School of Public Health.
THIS IS NOT a politically motivated post. Compare the map in TFA with this map, which I trivially Googled: http://news.gallup.com/poll/203117/gop-maintains-edge-state-... It's not a perfect correlation, but to my untrained eye, looking at both maps, it seems to me that red (eg, Republican) states appear to correlate closely with higher suicide states. But please judge and compare the maps for yourself and form your o…
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The graph is only showing changes in suicide rates. Perhaps Nevada's was already high?
I dug up some stats and Nevada is pretty high on the list.
"Hey kid: did you know that your very being is offensive and actually downright violent towards me and there is nothing you can do about it because it literally has to do with a fundamental aspect of who you are." Absolutely shocking that suicide is up.
Is there a reason you would expect the harm from things of that sort to have increased as of late?
THIS IS NOT a politically motivated post. Compare the map in TFA with this map, which I trivially Googled: http://news.gallup.com/poll/203117/gop-maintains-edge-state-... It's not a perfect correlation, but to my untrained eye, looking at both maps, it seems to me that red (eg, Republican) states appear to correlate closely with higher suicide states. But please judge and compare the maps for yourself and form your o…
Maybe people just REALLY hate working... https://thumbnails-visually.netdna-ssl.com/us-unemployment-r...
