Why do men commit suicide more than women? also, why has no one directly addressed me about this when I was in adolescence.

shady8x · 2012-05-29T03:10:31+00:00

Why do men commit suicide more than women?

I don't know, because no one cares enough about this issue to fund it.

So why aren't we asking what's wrong with a culture that drives boys, much more than girls, to take their own lives? Even in academia, where you can find studies on the most obscure topics, there is little research explaining why boys are disproportionately killing themselves. The Center for Adolescence at Stanford, a nationally recognized clearinghouse on teen behavior, has no one on its long roster of experts who can speak on the topic. Neither does the American Association of Suicidology, an organization dedicated to suicide prevention since 1968. "As much as I would love to lead the charge (in finding out why boys kill themselves), try to go out and get funding for it," said Lanny Berman, the executive director of the association. So the association has an expert on female suicide but none on male suicide, even though suicide is an overwhelmingly male issue well beyond adolescence. Of the 30,622 Americans of all ages who took their own lives in 2001, 24,672 were men.

Though, I think that many of the issues that are often addressed in this subreddit and that society pretends like those issues don't exist are a big part of the reason.

also, why has no one directly addressed me about this when I was in adolescence.

Because people view males as strong people that are capable of handling their problems. They also don't know much about the issue because few talk about it and pretty much no one can get funds to research it.

Every time that I have seen suicide addressed in any major publication, it was always about the women that are killing themselves and how we need to do something to help all those poor women... I am not saying that suicidal women shouldn't be helped, but how about also helping the other 4/5 of the victims?

neofool · 2012-05-28T22:17:30+00:00

I think there is a greater social support network for women than there than there is for men. If you are a guy and you fail at life it's assumed it was due to a lack of knowledge or not working hard enough. Often women's failing are accepted as due to an unjust system or a temporary setback.

tjdavids · 2012-05-28T23:50:18+00:00

When this issue is raised, men are blamed as they "don't seek out services" or "don't support each other".

If this statistic worked in the opposite direction, health services would be blamed for not being active in the community, and schools and other social organisations would be blamed for not fostering a supporting environment.

MartialWay · 2012-05-29T00:01:44+00:00

Why do men commit suicide more than women?

Family court. No joke, men in the system have a suicide rate 10 times higher than other men...which makes it 40-50 times higher than women.

2012-05-29T06:50:27+00:00

Best article I've seen on the subject:

http://whitehouseboysmen.org/blog/boys-men-and-suicide

The bit on dependent males really got to me, because it's a thought process I understand intimately and the reason why I, and countless other men I'm sure, have no desire to seek help for or even admit to having our suicidal thoughts.

C0CKPUNCHER · 2012-05-29T05:00:16+00:00

It's hiliarious how people can make it complicated. Why does anyone commit suicide? Because their life is unliveable. But no fuck them, it must mean there is something wrong with them the weaklings.

Why do more men commit suicide more than women? Probably because men treat women well, and women treat men badly. Fucking is just an excuse for this behavior.

real_brofessional · 2012-05-30T17:27:14+00:00

The real reason men commit suicide more than women is the methods they use. Women are much more likely to choose a way of doing themselves in like taking too many pills while men will take a more direct and ultimately effective route such as using a gun or jumping off of something very tall. Women actually attempt suicide much more than men do, its just that men are more successful in carrying out the action. An underlying cause of this is obviously intent, as most times a man's intent is truly to end their lives while a woman's suicide attempt is a more complicated emotional struggle that ends up in them taking reckless actions that are more a misguided cry for help.

Don_Drapers_a_Dick · 2012-05-29T01:56:40+00:00

Men "commit" suicide more often than women, but women "attempt" suicide about twice as often. I've read that this is due to the manner in which men attempt suicide (plummeting off a ledge, hanging, gunshot) compared to the way women attempt suicide (pill-popping and wrist cutting).

Link to relevant article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/11/981112075159.htm

Also, not in this article but in others, women's attempts manifest themselves in the way they do because they are more worried about not forcing others to clean up after them (Hence the less gory attempts and the common fixation with the bathtub).

Title	Why do men commit suicide more than women? also, why has no one directly addressed me about this when I was in adolescence.
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Date	May 28, 2012 9:24 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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