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White Middle-Aged Suicide Rates Increasing

Jerry Kennard
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Suicide rates among middle-aged white men and women are increasing - and we don't know why. A report published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, shows that after a decade long decrease in suicides the numbers are climbing. The suicide rate for Asians and Native Americans has remained ...
  1. Suicides
    Susie
    Saturday, November 08, 2008 at 11:05 PM

    1.  We are gettting older.  No one wants to hire us in our late 40's.  Insurance is too high.  We're going to die!  We're not attractive like we once were.  They really think that we're not up to the equal thoughts of a 20 year old.  Wrong!

     

    2.  We have baggage.  Our husbands.  They make us suicidle.

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  2. Antidepressants
    MARY
    Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 09:33 AM

    1 in 10 women are now taking antidepressants for eveything from mild depression [the blues we all get time to time] to pms to menopause to stress etc., etc. We now know they only have sugar pill effect and are the CAUSE of many more physical and mental symproms than the person had before taking them. They change the brain chemistry and alter the personality in blunting emotions. Look at these drugs for the answert!~

     

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  3. Don't know why? Can you be serious?
    Don't Know Why
    Friday, April 10, 2009 at 11:08 AM

    Look at the media, look at society.

     

    In commercials, the patsy is almost always portrayed as a bumbling white buffoon.

    On television, the antagonist/oppressor/social inept is played most often cast as a white.

    Everywhere you look, the hispanic & black are portrayed as the downtrodden and noble. The story is successful if they overcome some white person.

    Affirmative action, social programs, school lesson plans are all geared to someone other than whites. This goes double for white men.

     

    The only safe person to make fun of is the white man. If you're middle class its even better because you're looked down upon by those with affluance and viewed with suspicion by those with less.

     

    To the blacks, the white man is an impotent oppressor.

    To the hispanics, the white man is an evil redneck.

    To kids, middle aged people are idiots.

    To women, men are baggage.

    To immigrants, white Americans are lazy.

    To employers, there is no benefit to hiring whites.

    There are college entrance programs for every group except whites.

     

    There is no accepted social strata for whites. As soon as whites belong to something its racist.

     

    Its no wonder so many middle aged whites want to check out, by default there's no reason to stay. Bring and additional reason to the table and its game over.

     

     

     

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