The United States had its highest number of suicides last year, with more than 49,000 people taking their own life in 2022.
According to fresh data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday, suicides are now more common in the US than ever since World War II.
From the early 2000s until 2018, when the national rate reached its highest point since 1941, suicides in the US increased gradually. Forty-eight thousand three hundred people died by suicide in that year, or 14.2 per 100,000 Americans.
During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rate decreased somewhat in 2019 and once more in 2020. In the early phases of wars and natural disasters, when people prefer to band together and help one another, some analysts linked that to phenomena.
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However, suicides increased by 4% in 2021. According to the latest data, the number increased by more than 1,000 last year, reaching 49,449, or nearly a 3 percent increase over the previous year.
According to the CDC figures, men will likely commit 79 percent of all suicides in 2022.
“Nine out of ten Americans think there is a mental health crisis in the country. The latest statistics on suicide de@ths released by the CDC demonstrate why, according to a statement from US Health Secretary Xavier Becerra.
He continued by saying that many people still think that asking for assistance indicates weakness.
“Something is off,”
The statistics disappointed Christina Wilbur, a 45-year-old Florida lady whose son committed suicide by gunshot last year.
“Something is not right. The amount shouldn’t be increasing, she said.
“My son should not have died,” she added. “I know it’s complicated, I really do. But we have to be able to do something. Something that we’re not doing. Because whatever we’re doing right now is not helping.”
According to experts, the current rise may be caused by several variables, such as rising rates of depression and a shortage of mental health facilities.
But a major factor, according to Jill Harkavy-Friedman, senior vice president of research at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, is the proliferation of guns.
The nation’s overall gun suicide rate increased to an all-time high last year, according to a recent Johns Hopkins University report that used preliminary 2022 data to determine. The study discovered that Black youths now have a higher rate of gun suicide than white teens for the first time.
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Harkavy-Friedman remarked, “I don’t know whether you can talk about suicide without talking about guns.
Those who were older adults saw the biggest increases. De@ths increased by more than 8% among individuals 65 and older and by nearly 7% in people 45 to 64. According to the CDC, rates are particularly high among white men.
Losing a job or a spouse is a common concern for middle-aged and older adults. The CDC’s chief medical officer, Debra Houry, emphasized the need to remove barriers to their receiving help, such as stigma.
Despite the dismal data, suicides among people aged 10 to 24 decreased by more than 8% in 2022. According to CDC authorities, this may be because there is more awareness of children’s mental health difficulties and a drive for educators and others to pay attention to the issue.
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