Rates of depression and suicide in men are currently at an all-time high.
"As you may have heard, rates of depression and suicide are at an all-time high in men right now." (said at 0:00:30)
While male suicide and reported depression rates have risen in recent decades in several countries, epidemiological data spanning the past century demonstrate that male suicide rates are not at an all-time high. Long-term surveillance data from the United States (1900–2021) show an overall cyclical and downward-trending pattern across 120 years, with historical peaks occurring during earlier eras such as the Great Depression (early 1930s), rather than the present day.
- contradicts: A century of suicide: Insights from long-term data in the United States. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2026)
"Overall, we document a cyclical, dampening, and downward-trending pattern of suicide over 120 y, contrasting sharply with trends in other causes of death." (abstract, results, passage verified)
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