INB4 "but male suicide rates!!!"
Women attempt suicide at four times the rate of men.
Male suicide attempts are more fatal.
The reason for that is guns.
If you want to eliminate the gender suicide gap but aren't willing to talk about gun control, I cannot help you.
Women attempt suicide at four times the rate of men.
Male suicide attempts are more fatal.
The reason for that is guns.
If you want to eliminate the gender suicide gap but aren't willing to talk about gun control, I cannot help you.
Emma Lindsay has a great piece about this: medium.com/@emmalindsay/m…
Choice quotes:
"Few men have sustained participation in an activity that helps with emotional balance. Therapy would do it, meditation would do it. Church could do it, yoga could do it they were really into it. But most of these activities are dominated by women."
"Few men have sustained participation in an activity that helps with emotional balance. Therapy would do it, meditation would do it. Church could do it, yoga could do it they were really into it. But most of these activities are dominated by women."
"It is possible men are just wired to be more violent than women. I’m willing to entertain that.
But if that’s true, they should be extra double going to yoga classes. Why is the less violent gender the one learning all the emotional self regulation?"
But if that’s true, they should be extra double going to yoga classes. Why is the less violent gender the one learning all the emotional self regulation?"
It looks like some people have found this by searching the phrase "gun control."
I actually believe that responsible, law-abiding gun owners have a huge role to play in preventing male suicide!
Normalize having a friend hold onto your guns while you're in a bad place!
I actually believe that responsible, law-abiding gun owners have a huge role to play in preventing male suicide!
Normalize having a friend hold onto your guns while you're in a bad place!
If men who love guns want to be the solution to this problem, I would recommend:
-- having frank conversations with your male friends about depression & mental health
-- making it known that you are happy to hang onto a friend's guns if he cannot have them in the house
-- having frank conversations with your male friends about depression & mental health
-- making it known that you are happy to hang onto a friend's guns if he cannot have them in the house
You can give the dude an out by saying, "If you OR SOMEONE IN YOUR HOUSE" (and hey, it could be someone else in the house!) "cannot safely be around guns for a while, I'll store them, no questions asked. I'm here for you."
This is your time to shine, gun people!
This is not me saying that I refuse to take care of men who are going through mental health shit.
I'm in training to be a mental health professional. IN MY PROFESSIONAL ROLE, I will absolutely provide care to everyone.
I'm in training to be a mental health professional. IN MY PROFESSIONAL ROLE, I will absolutely provide care to everyone.
Even extra-curricularly, if you are one of my particular loved ones? I've got your back, forever, regardless of gender.
But tough love means saying that y'all need to have your own back more than you do.
But tough love means saying that y'all need to have your own back more than you do.
Hi all!
I didn't expect any of these tweets to do numbers, I have less than 600 followers. I did not word all of them exactly how I wold have if I had known I would be speaking to a much larger audience. Some of it sounds harsher than I intended.
I didn't expect any of these tweets to do numbers, I have less than 600 followers. I did not word all of them exactly how I wold have if I had known I would be speaking to a much larger audience. Some of it sounds harsher than I intended.
I was flippant about guns. I believe they play a huge role in male suicide fatality. I don't think they are the only factor.
For what it's worth, I think the way we talk about the suicide gap makes it worse. We describe the violent methods men use as "determined" and we describe people who, say, take pills and then reach out as "not serious" or "manipulative".
We literally teach men that they are BETTER AT SUICIDE, that there is a proper manly way to do it, that turning back or using a method you can turn back from is for women, who are all just faking anyway (because women be lying.)
When someone, say, takes pills or makes a cut and then has some time to think and realizes they don't want to die, and reaches out, that is GOOD. Those people often LIVE. But we teach that this is somehow less brave, less authentic, and certainly less manly than dying.
Turning back is brave. Reaching out is brave. LIVING IS BRAVE.
And re: men caring for each other.
I think many of them will, given the opportunity.
I think part of the issue is, men default to asking all the women in their lives for help, leaning on them first. Give your bros a chance to be great!
I think many of them will, given the opportunity.
I think part of the issue is, men default to asking all the women in their lives for help, leaning on them first. Give your bros a chance to be great!
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