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Originally posted by lordjeebus
Agreed. I think there's a certain belief in the power in individual will and rugged individualism in American culture that leads to the discounting of mental illness. I think a lot of people think that one can fix one's self without help (hence the success of self-help books) and most of the time it's not true. So people are less willing to seek help and less willing to see the need for help in others.
Not that America is the only place with a suicide problem. Japan's got a huge one, of very different etiology in my opinion.
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o but you forget something it takes a lot of money to get help adn your more likely to try sucdie if your poor