Ninety percent of LGBTQ+ youth said their well-being has been negatively impacted by recent politics, according to a new survey from The Trevor Project.
Pretty sure in the past, nature of the world itself had a lot to do with a vast majority of the deaths. Not a lot of time to consider suicide, when disease, nature and starvation are killing faster than we breed.
These days humanity has too much time to get into our own heads. Nature never intended for an animal to be as successful and destructive as humans today.
Yeah our brains don’t stop thinking but I’m not sure we can say what the limits of “nature’s” intentions are. As sophisticated as we are, we are still “nature”, just fancier tools. I understand what you’re saying though. Our survival functions get applied to new things that they may not have initially evolved to do. We’re still evolving though.
“diseases of despair” which includes but is not limited to suicides and overdoses has been steadily on the rise for over a decade in the U.S and so far as we know suicides reached an all-time high in 2022. -I’m betting they just haven’t collected and presented the 2023 data yet.
Confirms what I was thinking about rates on the rise. Thanks!
I think it’s dangerous to say that politics are causing suicides rather than “we have a mental health crisis”. A lot more reasons for previous generations of oppressed people to kill themselves , it maybe we weren’t keeping track as much then.
Are oppressed people today killing themselves more than those who lived during a more oppressive past?
Pretty sure in the past, nature of the world itself had a lot to do with a vast majority of the deaths. Not a lot of time to consider suicide, when disease, nature and starvation are killing faster than we breed.
These days humanity has too much time to get into our own heads. Nature never intended for an animal to be as successful and destructive as humans today.
Yeah our brains don’t stop thinking but I’m not sure we can say what the limits of “nature’s” intentions are. As sophisticated as we are, we are still “nature”, just fancier tools. I understand what you’re saying though. Our survival functions get applied to new things that they may not have initially evolved to do. We’re still evolving though.
“diseases of despair” which includes but is not limited to suicides and overdoses has been steadily on the rise for over a decade in the U.S and so far as we know suicides reached an all-time high in 2022. -I’m betting they just haven’t collected and presented the 2023 data yet.
Confirms what I was thinking about rates on the rise. Thanks!
I think it’s dangerous to say that politics are causing suicides rather than “we have a mental health crisis”. A lot more reasons for previous generations of oppressed people to kill themselves , it maybe we weren’t keeping track as much then.