Hey guys,
Every once in a while I come across an article referencing the high suicide rates in Colorado. What’s going on there? I associate Colorado with endless mountains and surrounded by nature. If getting out in nature is regarded as the answer to our life stresses and commitments, what’s the deal with the Centennial state being so high with suicides? Figured #1 would be LA because of the endless suburbs and dismal traffic.
LA is a city. Colorado is a state.
There are suburbs in Los Angeles?
Geography wrote:
LA is a city. Colorado is a state.
There are suburbs in Los Angeles?
LA is a state. It's near MS and AR
Oh yeah, I forgot that the 4 million people in Louisiana would cause as much traffic as the 16 million in Los Angeles.
Look at the top 10 and there's an obvious pattern:
1. Montana
2. Alaska
3. Nevada
4. New Mexico
5. Wyoming
6. Colorado
7. Idaho
8. Arizona
9. South Dakota
10. Utah
They are all "ranching" type states which means:
1. Low population density -> isolation -> loneliness
2. Easy access to guns
Can't speak for the other states but I lived in Alaska. High drug usage and homelessness among said users. Lots of Native Alaskans (what people from the lower 48 would call Eskimos) live in extreme poverty.
Dr. Kevorkian wrote:
Look at the top 10 and there's an obvious pattern:
1. Montana
2. Alaska
3. Nevada
4. New Mexico
5. Wyoming
6. Colorado
7. Idaho
8. Arizona
9. South Dakota
10. Utah
Living in a state with long, straight borders makes people commit suicide.
due to the weed, that stuff is not harmless despite what the propaganda says.
TAA wrote:
Dr. Kevorkian wrote:
Look at the top 10 and there's an obvious pattern:
1. Montana
2. Alaska
3. Nevada
4. New Mexico
5. Wyoming
6. Colorado
7. Idaho
8. Arizona
9. South Dakota
10. Utah
Living in a state with long, straight borders makes people commit suicide.
If that were the case then this state would be at the top
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjYy_P8xqTjAhVT-lQKHddDBX4QjRx6BAgBEAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fontheworldmap.com%2Fusa%2Fstate%2Ftennessee%2F&psig=AOvVaw0e8hzEQ-brMhaL4Y5jQBTy&ust=1562648863644083Geography wrote:
LA is a city. Colorado is a state.
There are suburbs in Los Angeles?
Are you stupid?
I think it’s generally the libertarian take care of yourself out there attitude and the super easy access to guns. Also quite a bit of mental illnesses in some parts of Colorado and it may be part of the reason they came to Colorado in the first place. I would guess that a relatively high percentage of Coloradan families have a gun in the house.
While it’s becoming more liberal with the transplants coming, many parts of it the state are still poor, rural, and cowboy’ish. Outside of Denver, Boulder and the metro areas, the people are not well educated. There are exceptions to this (eg the wealthy areas around the ski resorts, Edwards, Vail etc), but generally the case.
Dr. Kevorkian wrote:
Look at the top 10 and there's an obvious pattern:
1. Montana
2. Alaska
3. Nevada
4. New Mexico
5. Wyoming
6. Colorado
7. Idaho
8. Arizona
9. South Dakota
10. Utah
They are all "ranching" type states which means:
1. Low population density -> isolation -> loneliness
2. Easy access to guns
The 10 states with the least amount of suicide:
40 Texas
41 Virginia
42 Rhode Island
43 Delaware
44 Illinois
45 California
46 Connecticut
47 Maryland
48 Massachusetts
49 New Jersey
50 New York
1. Mostly in the northeast, higher socio-economic status.
2. More densely populated
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/states-with-the-highest-suicide-rates-in-us.htmlJehrbfbdkbdbd wrote:
I think it’s generally the libertarian take care of yourself out there attitude and the super easy access to guns. Also quite a bit of mental illnesses in some parts of Colorado and it may be part of the reason they came to Colorado in the first place. I would guess that a relatively high percentage of Coloradan families have a gun in the house.
While it’s becoming more liberal with the transplants coming, many parts of it the state are still poor, rural, and cowboy’ish. Outside of Denver, Boulder and the metro areas, the people are not well educated. There are exceptions to this (eg the wealthy areas around the ski resorts, Edwards, Vail
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Agree with Jehrbfbdkbdbd these are Colorado facts and i can add one more thing to it that if you continuously think of something it will become your selective attention and you then seems to find related stories everywhere. Its just like streamers they find something new everyday no matter where they go.
Dr. Kevorkian wrote:
Look at the top 10 and there's an obvious pattern:
1. Montana
2. Alaska
3. Nevada
4. New Mexico
5. Wyoming
6. Colorado
7. Idaho
8. Arizona
9. South Dakota
10. Utah
They are all "ranching" type states which means:
1. Low population density -> isolation -> loneliness
2. Easy access to guns
Since the majority of suicides are involving males, there's a shortage of women in those states. Not having a decent amount of women to chose from for dating, relationships, marriage, etc., can lead to depression.
It's hypothesized that there is something about higher altitudes that make one more prone to depression, they don't know what the link is but perhaps less oxygen? High suicide rates are very often found in mountainous regions. There is also the rugged cowboy go-it-alone sort of mentality that leads people to isolate, and the isolation that comes with tiny ranching towns that dot the state. Another interesting article that came out last year about theorized that people have a very idyllic perception of these beautiful places (like CO) and come out here to get away from their problems, only to find out that it's hella expensive, and often difficult to find consistent work that would allow one to thrive here, especially true for those who come out to work in gorgeous ski towns. Still, I've always been surprised that AK doesn't just blow every other state out of the water with suicide rates.
It's the mountains. By looking at them you can't help but to be reflective & see the big picture. Which is . . .
Meaningless! Meaningless!
Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.
For with much wisdom comes much sorrow;
the more knowledge, the more grief.
Life is a chasing after the wind . . . meaningless
TAA wrote:
Living in a state with long, straight borders makes people commit suicide.
THIS makes total sense.
white males accouted for about 70% of all suicides in 2017.
Some people have mentioned the altitude and the lack of oxygen. This might be part of the problem.
The bigger part of the problem I think is, that most beautiful places have the problem that the rich get there. And this warps the fabric of small mountain towns a lot. Kids grow up with other kids but they don't realize that the parents from their friends are trust funded and just work for fun while their parents struggle along with low paying jobs in high cost areas.
The ski industry which is Vail Resort for the most part, has done a lot too to destroy mountain towns. Now everything is depending on Vail Resorts but you will not hear a bad word about them because they sit on every board possible.
But of course Colorado is also very rural in a lot of places unless you are in the Front Range with it's own set of problems.
And there is nothing worse than feeling miserable in an objective scenic mountain area.
When I went to Telluride earlier this yr, driving through Durango CO and Montrose CO was completely depressing. Montrose seems like a complete wasteland, I would be very depressed to live there. The rest of the state is beautiful but these outlier towns are full on depression.