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cybermystpage
cybermystpage asked in HealthMental Health · 2 weeks ago

When a group has a suicide rate ten times the national average, is it a good idea to consider them "normal"?

And pretend they don't have a mental illness?  I mean come on, what kind of bizarro world are we living in now? 

Update:

The "everyone makes their lives miserable" excuse is garbage.  Even during slavery, black people in the United States had a lower than average suicide rate.  Are you trying to say that somehow trans people have more miserable lives than blacks when they were slaves??? REALLY?

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  • Andy C
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    One that makes normal people suicidal. 

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    I go out of my way to hit people with red hair with my car. Then I read that red-headed people in my area have a higher rate of hospitalization than other people. So see? That proves that there's something wrong with red-headed people, and I'm right to hit them with my car!

    Maybe if we stopped making people's lives miserable, they'd stop killing themselves. 

  • sunshine_mel
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    What's 'normal'?

    Suicide is a risk to themselves, not the wider population;  you'd hope that you'd be kind to them and offer them the support necessary.

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    So you're saying teenagers aren't normal. I'll be sure to send them over to your house with rolls of toilet paper and cartons of eggs.

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    Are we talking about males. ??

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