Why is America known for mass suicide?

There has been a ton of guesstimates on this exact topic, nothing trying to be demeaning, but as in, it has been questioned by many top level academics and leading experts on different areas.

The United States is extremely difficult to quantify since it contains over 300 million citizens, with a widely difference in both herritage, upbringing, social status, and a billion other factors that is de facto impossible to account for in a scientific study, that would be representable.

It could be the ever-rising pressure of chasing the "American dream" and the societies pressure on the individual to become the biggest, greatest and best at everything, have high income, become something remarkable and trying to leave their imprint on the world. It could also be due to poverty and a dysfunctional healthcare system, so the guesses are many, but the answers will remain hidden.

Here's some who attempts to provide an answer.

www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide.shtml
www.vcuautismcenter.org/foundations/comorbidity.pdf
psychcentral.com/news/2014/10/13/suicidal-thoughts-10-times-more-likely-in-adults-with-aspergers/76016.html

Is there even an American dream still?

There is an Italian proverb and my family used to say it “I came to America because I heard the streets were paved with gold. When I got here, I found out three things. First the streets weren't paved with gold, second they weren’t paved at all, and lastly I was expected to pave them”. So then begs the question of what was the American dream to begain with? There is two definitions. Well I tend to agree with Donald Trump. It is freedom, peace, prosperity, liberty, and justice for all. The other definition of the American dream is you start from the bottom work hard and end up in a wealthy class.

The “American dream” as it was considered is in trouble. Odds are you will die in the class you were born in.

There is a reason this country is called "the land of opportunity" because if you work hard, the options are almost endless.

Look at Arnold Schwarzenegger. He grew up in a dirt poor family in Austria country. He was given a great opportunity and he took advantage of it... look where he is now. That man, although not born in America, represents what America is really about. He was a multiple time Mr Olympia, movie star, and Governor. The problem is most people aren’t Arnold. He was able to break into movies because his bodybuilding career, and he was a great bodybuilder do to work ethic, genetics, and steroids. He became Governor because of his name not his politics. The other thing is most people aren’t willing to put in the work to achieve what the really want.

It seems to me that the ever increasing sprawl of our bureaucracy is the biggest threat to everything we typically associate with the American Dream as far as freedom, achievement, brotherhood, and virtue.


Income Tax, Welfare, and Class Warfare

The governmental institution has effectively driven a wedge between the American social classes.

- It serves to inhibit the growth of the lower classes by creating a culture of entitlement and complacency.
- It creates a resentment among the middle and upper class tax brackets that are coerced to forfeit their wages.

Interventionist Foreign Policy

Because we have meddled in the affairs of foreign nations so frequently, we've become a popular target for terrorists. This has led to the creation of institutions such as the Patriot Act, which constitute a gross infringement on basic privacy rights and civil liberties.

Also Government being very heavily involved in buisness and not for the good of the nation but for private interests.

Is America really know for suicides? I actually didn't know that, but this might actually be related to the fact I live inside the United States. Normally here when considering "mass suicide", countries like Russia & or Japan normally come to mind.

Russia normally is just a common subject when it comes to these conversations - no matter how rare they are - where I live. Its kind of one of those "fun facts" that for some reason everyone knows. Similar Japan is also another country known for "mass suicides" mainly because of the simple shock value of an actual forest existing which has signs on the outside with suicide prevention hotlines on it. The reasons behind why people know these things is a bit of a stomach turner for me, and its never really settled well that it's just commonly accepted, yet it's kind of one of those "well what did you expect" conversations. Anyway enough with my anecdotes, I guess.

You wouldn't say we have a frequent occurence of school shootings at least? I don't know if school shootings are popular anywhere else hmm

In general, the US is known as the country where the number of suicides continues to grow
According to the latest statistics in every second or minute in the US if not suicide then shooting!