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Aloneandinpain
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- Dec 25, 2023
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This is mostly correct, there definitely an invisible safety net there for women which stops most reaching the depths of despair and hardship the men at the very bottom suffer.There's a theory that men have a more "winner takes all" deal in life.
That successful men are the most privileged in society, but "loser" men are at the bottom rung and are largely undesired by anyone. And this is the area that are susceptible to suicide, not because of mental health disorders per se, but an objective evaluation that their life sucks.
All just a theory and generalisation of course. I wouldn't ever wish to suggest that either gender isn't capable of experiencing a terrible quality of life, from mental health disorders or otherwise.
While men do indeed suffer from mental illnesses, your typical case of male depression is reactive in nature. In other words they suffer some terrible hardship or injustice in their life (or multiple such hardships), they don't really see a way out of their situation, and their depression and eventual suicidal is simply a quite logical and natural reaction to this.
The particularly messed up thing about anti-suicide charities is that they issue guidelines that no one or media outlet should ever report or hint at a suicide being linked to life events and being explainable and logical.
The charities just want to push mental illness and typical female suicide cases as the default because that's kind of easier for society to handle.
The fact that we treat many men like complete crap, and the state actively makes their lives worse, and they're dying directly as a result of the way they're treated isn't something anyone wants to acknowledge. Instead we have to essentially erase the typical male suicide victim and push mental illness or even victim blame the bullshit line of men "not seeking help".