We've seen that suicide rates in very poor countries tend to be quite a bit lower. This leads some, my self included, to hypothesize that it is the cliff that o

We've seen that suicide rates in very poor countries tend to be quite a bit lower. This leads some, my self included, to hypothesize that it is the cliff that one can fall off of in society that causes more of these issues. In the US, a person can go from making an upper middle class salary to barely being able to feed and house themselves in less than a year. If a person has a criminal record(even a misdemeanor) and no college degree, their odds of any type of success plummet. With high divorce rates and custody issues, many people find themselves unable to regroup social and spend the rest of their lives essentially alone. As we have a more and more polarized society of winners and losers, we will see drug use and suicide continue to increase as people lose hope for improving their situation or cannot cope with significant, and likely permanent, regressions in their quality of life.