Suicide and depression rates have increased a lot in the developed world.
Why do you think this is /pol/?
Feminism, marxism and leftism. It all eats away at the human spirit
>>74463209
Thanks, Jews!
>>74463209
I think you're right and I think it also has to do with being guild tripped from a young age, hearing about the children starving and wars going on and how privileged you are for being born in the first world.
Then you feel like it's not ok to feel like things could be better - then you are greedy and egotistical.
I think Korea for example is a different situation at least partially with there being higher pressure to succeed- which you can tell by the general mental health of the young Korean population.
>>74463103
What? Sorry but I don't get that chart.
Are you telling me that double as many people kill themselves than die in accidents?
>>74463887
Look at the numbers on the left.
I just chose an image that fit the topic at hand
>>74463103
When you don't work, you get to think.
When you think, you start realising how insignificant you are.
Not really, just joshing. The truth is that the kikes send out suicidal brainwaves causing mass suicide and depression. This allowing easier control over the people and allowing the puppet-states to stay in power and be controlled by the jewish masterminds.
It's probably out humor, it's become much less juvenille. But if anything it's the replacement rate.
>>74463209
What's the point if society's end goal is pic related
>>74463209
No, it's humans reacting to an environment changed by the advance of technology. Human behavior cannot be explained away with some political ideology.
>>74463103
honestly? strangers aren't as nice as they used to be. everyone is scared of everyone else, so everyone thinks there's something wrong with themselves
>>74464264
Yeah, political ideologies never influenced anyone. When Apple came out with their new iPhone though I knew it was time to take my own life
Being a pussy and having no "safe-space".
>>74463103
Technology is making us be more separated than ever.
>>74463103
Look at it positively: the more suicides, the less suicidees...
>>74464625
Fucking this, all that social networking crap and vidya is getting out of hand.
>>74464264
Explain picrelated pls.
>>74463103
1) Atheism. Life cannot subjective meaning.
2) Break-down of the family unit = dysfunctional childhood
3) Growing population density. We evolved to live in small, ethnically homogeneous, tight-knit tribes.
4) The writing is on the wall: Western civilization is in decline. Those growing up today will have it worse than their parents, and they know it.
5) The loss of strong, male role models.
"What characterizes modern life is the failure of all traditional immortality ideologies to absorb man's hunger for self-perpetuation and heroism. Neurosis is today a widespread problem because of the disappearance of convincing dramas of heroic apotheosis of man."
-Ernest Becker
>>74463103
So the gun death statistics will have bigger numbers for the left.
>>74464893
>. Those growing up today will have it worse than their parents
How exactly?
>>74464847
>the most likely person to kill me is myself
>not if I kill him first
>>74464864
Lower population
>you may think I'm joking but I'm not
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1) The infant feels itself omnipotent, a God. It cries, and food and warmth appear from the void, self-created.
"I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on." -Sigmund Freud
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2) The child eventually learns the truth. It is a bag of flesh, bound by determinism, and subject to decay and death. This causes anxiety and dread.
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3) To aid the child in escaping anxiety and dread, society teaches it the vital lies of Character and Culture. Character offers the means to function in society with self-esteem and confidence, through denial of one's fundamental human condition. Culture provides symbolic forms of meaning and purpose, a sense of heroism to serve as a bulwark against death, ranging from the high heroism of a Churchill, to the low heroism of a farmer.
"With the truth, one cannot live. The more man can take appearance as truth, the sounder, the better adjusted, the happier he will be ... this constantly effective process of self-deceiving, pretending, and blundering, is no psychopathologial mechanism." -Otto Rank
"The essence of normality is the refusal of reality." -Ernest Becker
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4) With the vital lies of Character and Culture at hand, the individual often loses himself in the immediacy of life. He works, eats, procreates, and lives according to the symbolic ideals and meaning handed to him by society, with entertainment serving as escape. The vast majority of people will remain in this stage until death. Kierkegaard referred to this type as the "immediate" men.
"Philistinism tranquilizes itself in the trivial" -Soren Kierkegaard
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5) Some people are more sensitive to the lie of cultural life that others are so thoughtlessly and trustingly caught up in, and feel a fundamental contempt for "immediacy." Kierkegaard calls such individuals "introverts." Introversion is impotence, but an impotence which is self-conscious to a degree, and it is this self-consciousness which is troublesome. Such individuals harbor a need to break free from culturally constructed meaning as the basis for the meaning of life. Historically, society instilled the most important ingredient of all: religious faith, which offered the sole means for absolute transcendence. The modern, secular society's loss of faith in the soul and God has broken down the primary cure for existential dread.
"What characterizes modern life is the failure of all traditional immortality ideologies to absorb man's hunger for self-perpetuation and heroism. Neurosis is today a widespread problem because of the disappearance of convincing dramas of heroic apotheosis of man." -Becker
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>>74465173
1) The suicide rate is counted per 100 000.
2) The population is bigger with every year, it is now only 1 million lower than in year 1992.
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6) With introversion and the breaking of culturally constructed meaning comes a recognition of the truth of one's condition. With a recognition of the truth, the anxiety and dread of the child returns. The individual struggles to ease anxiety and dread by searching for legitimate sources of meaning and purpose to replace the lies of Character and Culture.
In the modern age, the individual will typically turn to psychology and medication to cure their natural, neurotic despair. The promise of psychology and pharmocology, like all of modern science, was that it would usher in the era of happiness, by showing us how things worked, how one thing caused another. But now we come up against the fallacy of psychological self-scrutiny. The scientific victory of replacing religious faith with psychological introspection has caused more problems than it solved.
"Psychology, which is gradually trying to supplant religious and moral ideology, is only partially qualified to do this, because it is a preponderantly negative and disintegrating ideology.
"Psychoanalysis failed therapeutically because it aggravated man's psychologizing rather than healed him of his introspection." -Otto Rank
Sin and Neurosis are two ways of talking about the same thing - the complete isolation of the individual, his disharmony with the rest of nature, his hyperindividualism, his attempt to create his own world from within himself, his refusal to recognize his cosmic dependence.
"Both the sinner and the neurotic experience the naturalness of human insufficiency, only today the neurotic is stripped of the symbolic world-view, the God-ideology that would make sense of of his unworthiness and would translate it into heroism." -Becker
Thus the plight of modern man: a sinner with no word for it, who seeks a rational explanation for his isolation in psychology, and thus only aggravates the problem of his separateness and hyperconsciousness.
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>>74465173
It says suicide RATE so lower population doesn't mean anything
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7) Dread proceeds to categorically destroy all human (finite) ends and purposes, until all that can remain is the infinite.
"Anxiety is the possibility of freedom, because anxiety demolishes all finite aims, and so the man who is educated by possibility is educated in accordance with his infinity.
"Now the dread of possibility holds him as its prey, until it can deliver him saved into the hands of faith. In no other place does he find repose..." -Kierkegaard
The school of anxiety eventually arrives at faith. A faith that despite one's true insignificance, weakness, death, one's existence has meaning in some ultimate sense because it exists within an eternal and infinite scheme of things brought about and maintained to some kind of design by some creative force. Life thereby acquires ultimate value in place of merely social and cultural, historical value.
"So soon as psychology has finished with dread, it has nothing to do but to deliver it over to dogmatics." -Kierkegaard
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Lower wages.
/thread
>>74463887
Pretty sure it's percentages. If 2006 was 100% than 2011 would be 112%.
>>74465347
>>74465358
Alright, then I don't know
>>74464893
I have already grown up and have it far worse than my parents. A good example is trying to buy a house. 19 years ago my parents got theirs for 50k, now it's worth 300k. The wages sure as fuck haven't risen that much though.
>>74463103
Once you have everything, what is there left to work towards?
What is your purpose?
Also worth noting that the west/developed world is becoming more and more secular...
>>74463103
It's the blacks and muslims.
>>74465383
Are you the YouTube pigeon or are you just larping as him?
The leading cause of death for 15-25s is suicide here. Males having a much higher suicide rate than females.
The rate has increased ten-fold compared to 75 years ago.
>>74463103
>heart disease going down
Did they finally banned burgers in USA?
>>74465487
Not really
Unless only 1 trip to Hawaii a year instead of 3 is eternal suffering, in that case the white race is spineless and doomed
>>74465701
No, Americans are just getting in better shape running away from black gangs wanting to murder them for no reason.
>>74465067
both of my parents have bachelor degrees they earned while working at a grocery store
local university limits how many hours i can work if i apply, forces me to have health insurance and there's no assistance
not that college is the only way to get through life
>>74465552
I'm having trouble finding a place to stay too - in Uni living at home right now, as my parents live pretty central.
Longest waiting times to rent an apartment in Europe here in Stockholm.
>>74465683
I think it's roughly the same here.
>>74465526
Protip: It's traditionalism.
>>74465786
the answer is simple.
1. it is because we got money and can afford to be individualist.
2. because less people have an investment in the future (kids)
>>74464847
suicide can happen to anyone, seriously. It comes out of nowhere, it happened to me
>get a new job working graveyard shift
>take lotsa adderall to stay alert
>increasing my dose every couple days
>forget to sleep the entire week
>don't realize how sleep deprived I actually am
>after the 5th night of this, I come home and a couple friends are hanging out with my roommate smoking meth and masterbating
>chill with them, while continuing to do meth
>roomie and one friend pass out around 2
>me and my buddy stay up longer
>still doing meth
>buddy says he has to get home before sunrise
>I take him home around 6am
>get back to my house and start having a total mental breakdown
>slamming doors, punching walls, screaming into my pillow
>grab a bunch of beer bottles and start throwing them at abandoned houses
>come back inside, still can't calm down
>stay up til 9am
>drive to the liquor store
>buy cheapest bourbon I can find
>come home, and chug half a fifth
>break down into tears
>sobbing in my room
>realize I'm on the verge of suicide
>tell my friends that I'm really fucking unstable
>they try to help me out
>eventually pass out because I was drunk as FUCK
>wake up still drunk and tweaked out
>break down crying again and masterbating
>cut the fuck out of my arm
>my friends come into my room to stop me
>we smoke some weed and I start to calm down
>spend the next 3 days trying to recover
>>74466007
>take lotsa adderall to stay alert
>increasing my dose every couple days
If you're this dumb maybe your body is trying to cleanse you from the gene pool?
>>74463103
meme magic
>>74466007
>hanging out with my roommate smoking meth and masterbating
As you do
>>74466201
>>74463103
Because there is no faster way to meet Jesus and find happiness in heaven. Every Christian should do it, they would be happier and we wouldn't have to deal with their Jewish bullshit.
Lack of cohesive families hurts everyone even those who opt out
>>74463103
I'm not confident the data is really available, but it would be my estimation that any empire/hegemony that is ending has a marked increase in suicides.
>>74463103
Monocropping and industrial contaminants. There's is a indian tribe in canada that births 7/8 girls only right after a factor moved across the river from them. they can smell it all the times and then they almost completely stopped having boys. And the girls were developing sexually like at seven and nine.
>>74463103
Being addicted to anime and video games at 20 is just pussification of the americans just like the japs.
On top of that loss of religious values, fat burgers and feminism men are systematically programmed to be doomed. Thats right USA you are being programmed to die.
>increase of degeneracy leads to higher suicide rates
In other news, water is wet.
>>74463103
As a psychologist I can say that first world people don't struggle, they do not have real problems so any little thing is a reason for them to end their life.
>>74466924
This makes absolutely no sense, and you aren't a psychologist.
Low testosterone obviously, this is what is causing the decline of the western world too.
>>74466635
7 girls for every boy
heaven
I need to move there
>>74467009
They're hairy, smelly indian girls. More of them is a curse.
>>74465199
>>74465245
>>74465354
>>74465383
>http://files.meetup.com/885675/ernest_becker_the_denial_of_deathbookfi2-org.pdf
real good book
>>74466007
Don't worry anon I'm sure one day you will successfully going to end yourself.
>>74463103
>Why do you think this is /pol/?
Because western women are getting shittier by the minute but fembots aren't available yet
>>74466007
Now you understand the evils of masturbation.
>>74463103
We must ban guns obviously!
>age-adjusted
i'm retarded. does this mean that the chart corrects for the shifting in average age?
People are becoming superfluous.
Feminism
>>74463103
Small communities have been destroyed, instead of buying your bread from friendly Mr. and Mrs. Johnson down the road you buy it at Wally World. Instead of going to church you just play Japanese video games in your room. Everywhere you go people are occupied with electronics and are unwilling to engage real life. You probably talk to your friends more often via text than in person, your coworkers hate you (and everyone else), your gf is probably sleeping with someone they met over tinder a few hours ago and your rent just rose another $10 for no reason. Your employer probably doesn't really need you and you are forever teetering on the edge of unemployment.
Your car needs to be repaired but you don't have the money, thus you risk your life driving every day hoping the wheels don't fall off and you don't accidentally veer into a concrete wall like millions of people do every year. Alternatively, you can't even afford a car and must ride the bus with drug addicts for at least 2 hours a day. Your parents are probably divorced and don't give a shit about anything besides work, television or booze. Your entire life you've been taught that everything you believe is wrong no matter how right it might seem. Everybody is on drugs, legal or otherwise. If you died your funeral would only seat maybe 3 people and you wonder if your friends would even show up. You can feel your ancestors looking down on you in utter disappointment as you masturbate to anime.
You probably eat unhealthy junkfood all day and haven't eaten a healthy meal in years, or perhaps your entire life. Your water is poisoned. The sun may or may not be obscured by smog for weeks on end. You have back problems at 25 years old. You either can't gain weight or can't lose it. Your hair is falling out and you don't know why. You probably have cancer but don't know it yet. You contemplate joining the military so you can have an excuse to die.
But hey thank god we have cell phones
>>74463103
I saw a vid where a guy explained it all by lining up the graphs for suicide rate, violent crime, divorce rate, unemployment. He then played with the scale a bit and all of those graphs eerily resembled each other. I don't remember how, but he tied it all to birth control and promiscuity and such. I can't find the vid now, plus the guy was some patreon-funded faggot I think so yeah, there's that to his credibility.
>>74469777
Did you just write your life story in second person?