Why is Gen X killing themselves?

Its not just the Gen X rock stars that are offing themselves. Suicide is rampant in Gen X. Socially, politically and economically what went so wrong for Gen X?

>Generation-X also, statistically, has suffered the highest childhood suicide rates since 4 previous generations spanning almost 100 years, and now have the highest middle age suicide rates of any living generation.
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>During the 1980s and early '90s, when Gen X were teenagers, the teen suicide rate shot up sharply. By 1990, the suicide rate among males aged 15 to 19 had more than tripled in 30 years in several countries, including Australia, New Zealand and the US.
>In recent years we have seen a welcome decline in the number of teen suicides (though there are still too many, of course), and the suicide rates for Australians aged over 50 are down markedly. But among people aged in their 30s, the suicide rate is up. The trend is disturbingly easy to spot: the generation that were killing themselves as teenagers 20 years ago are the same generation that are killing themselves as adults now.
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>43% of documented suicides in the US in 2007 were between 35 and 54 years of age
>Expectations are this trend will increase over the next few years
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>The federal health agency’s last major report on suicide, released in 2013, noted a sharp increase in suicide among 35- to 64-year-olds.
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Everyting you're taught is a lie, and they expect you to man up tow the line and serve the vaginal jew. Around mid puberty you begin to become by all intents and purposes and adult and they double down on action/thought controlling rhetoric.

mfw 90% of the suicides are young boys and men,

Boomers were our teachers. The draft dodger Boomers in full flower-power. Those were our earliest interactions with "the world"

wew lad. If that isn't enough to depress you for your entire life, what is?

Gen X males are just entering their Divorce years.

You know, I'm not sure what generation anyone is. Boomers? Okay, that's at least a starting point. But everything after is a jumble, and some boomers are a decade older than my mom and she was born in 54, so is she a boomer? I don't what I am either. Born 78 so am I Gen X or Y or Millenium or some other bullshit dreamt up by marketing Jews.

Plus, really, we're old enough to remember how it was and know how it is now. And we see nothing much ahead of us. If we're not set now, we just won't be ever. Most of the edgy Xers I know have either settled for crumbs or are doing their last big gamble, a kind of going down fighting thing but they intend to go down if it doesn't work out.

78 = Nintendo-wave Xer

I'm going to be killing myself soon too.
There is no point in going on and I'm losing my desire to care for this planet and its future.

What does that really imply, though. How is someone born in 78 different than someone born in 88 or 98, aside from different videogames, movies, and television shows. It's ridiculous.

Boomers screwed them.


t. 1983 (yes i know i'm early millenial. all of my siblings are gen x)

I blame the rise of the internet and subsequent amount of knowledge that is actively transported through it. Comforting truths are dead.
At one point you would've been confined to whatever a friend says on the phone, in person, or possibly written in a book or newspaper. Now you can see the thoughts and opinions of anyone from around the world as well as knowledge that they have parsed together. This leads to the eventual destruction of comforting truths and reveals the raw intensity, ambiguity, and harsh reality of life. It's this overflow of information that can be very difficult to handle and which I personally believe has at least SOME effect on rising suicide rates.

What does that ultimately mean. It just means they're older than you. But you'll be their age eventually anyhow, and people are younger than you, but they'll be your current age eventually too.

>old enough to remember how it was and know how it is now.
>see nothing much ahead
>not set now, won't be ever
>currently settled for crumbs and doing a last big gamble
>will go down fighting & intend to go down if it doesn't work out
tfw

Fuck im tired. I meant comforting lies/half truths.

Leading edge of Gen X is getting their AARP cards, and all the hot VJs from MTV's early years are looking like Liza Minnelli.

Suicide is the final redpill.

I'm a millennial but I'm totally onboard. I might wait to see how this Trump thing turns out though.

gen x are the same as millenials, just a few years older

nothing really changed culturally from the 80s through 00s. phones and laptops just took the place of magazines and tv. feminism and materialism had fully infected the american spirit by the early 80s.

gen z will be interesting, since the level of retarded leftism is reaching new heights and lessons about communism are dying off with the boomers.

can you imagine the suicide rates of millenials in 20-30 years? its going to be off the fucking scale. all those countless millions of old sick and depressed people fucked up on drugs and other shit. no families, no marriage, no children, society falling apart around them, everything they loved disappearing.

most people have no idea whats waiting right around the corner.

somehow it is different though. something about people born '78-'82. they aren't gen X nor millennial really. They didn't have the 70s influence, missed most of the 80s and just blended into the 90s.

>most people have no idea whats waiting right around the corner.
No. We certainly do. That's why everyone is offing themselves.

Look at these clowns.
>marriage
>partners
>AARP

L M A O
So fucking out of touch.

It's because white GenX-GenYers have NOTHING to be proud of anymore thanks to communist subversion in our education and media.
>Pride for your country?
You're a fucking racist remember the 100 gorllion goy!
>Pride for your culture?
Our culture is inherently sexist and racist, you are not allowed to like it!
>Pride for your work?
Fuckin' 1% capitalist piggu go die!
>Pride in your family?
Fucking cishet scum, you're probably a homophobe too!
>Pride for your heritage?
FUCKING NAZI!!!111!!
When you have nothing that you can allowed to be prideful of, you have NOTHING. Plain and simple.

What they conveniently leave out is that men are the ones that are killing themselves. Hmmmmm I wonder why that is?

>muh why are you guys dying *sad face* & a poignant tear
Because we're heavy into autoerotic asphyxiation
But just wait until you millineals hit your 30s & 40s
You're already crying and trying to fight over a presidential campaign just wait til the weight of your failures kick in

This x gorillion

Suicide rates are highest among divorced males,... and the corrupt family court system makes too much money with antiquated legislature to give a fuck.

>vaginal Jew
Splain plez

Gen Z functional heroin addict here...
Anyone want to ask me something?

I'm on heroin right now, as I am 24/7

eh it's just the arbitrary division of generations for the economic and sociological argument. i had the incredible fortune of being born to boomer parents in their late 30's, by accident, seven years after the previous sibling was born. good times. also the folks declared bankrupcty the year i was born.

that's when americans started shoveling SSRIs into their kids

this is an extreme hate fact though so you never hear about it

Why haven't you killed yourself yet?

Because heroin cures my loneliness and depression effectively enough to stop my suicidal feelings

Old enough to remember what America was, young enough to live through America's death.

fuck..

How can you afford to be on heroin 24/7?

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered

Read this Bible

I have a high-paying job and I don't have many other expenses.

Excerpt re cohort groups also other factors make similarities in even small windows of time.

BUT c'mon man we all fantasized about this shit. Nukes flying, knife fighting a stock broker over a rusty tin of cat food in the ruins.... What's eating me is I'm gonna be old as shit and not having any laffs

>Suicide is rampant in Gen X
rudderless goyim will inevitably reach for the sanguine pill...

because we're still just monkies that got thrown into a world of instant pleasures and addictions. constantly bombarded with degeneration from consumerism and (((their))) culture, while still having extremely high expectations thrust upon us.

the jews are evil and FUCK ALL OF YOU FOR LETTING THIS HAPPEN. now it's up to a generation of literally 10% autists to take the world back from them. I was very close to killing myself dozens of times but managed to keep it together because killing myself means the jews win.

Living is banal

But aging doesn't alter cohort group or generation. Experiences unique to a cohort group will shape future experiences and reactions always separating them, their desires, and their societal outcomes from other groups and generations.

Modernity/Post-modernity

anyone else feel the pull of suicide?
>22
>dropped out of college because terrible grades
>bad at everything I do
>terrible anxiety makes it difficult for me to do anything to better myself
>few friends, no one irl to give me advice
>drinking too much coffee and playing LoL and browsing online are how I spend all my free time

A generation built on Nihilism and consumption will find little meaning in life.

Maybe because women are horrible.

I am Gen X. We're harmless, ignore us. The Boomers are the real problem.

Why should he kill himself, he's hopped up on heroin.

>Its not just the Gen X rock stars that are offing themselves. Suicide is rampant in Gen X. Socially, politically and economically what went so wrong for Gen X?

The media, academics and politicians worked in concert for decades with the filthy rich to deconstruct their culture and throw people into an abyss of nothingness to live in.

Get help, okay guy? I was pretty lonely at the end of last year and now I have a qt girlfriend and a good circle of friends. You can too.

ty, link to book plx

nvm im a retard

How do I get a high-paying job that's so easy a strung-out junkie can do it? I bust my ass 60 hours a week and get paid peanuts. It's difficult work even with 100% sobriety.
I feel cheated.

Get off your ass and get a job. A shitty terrible job that you don't quit that will teach your the value of hard work. A job that even you will be over qualified for

we tried to go anti-materialism and no war and through no fault of our own ended up with ultra materialism and constant war. It's pretty abysmal out there and none of us had any thing to do with it. Women have gone full gold digger status in all the large cities.

>remember Gen X'ers giving millennial kids tons of shit on the internet
>they were really just dead inside

Some people aren't made for college at 22. It's depressing trying to be round peg in a square hole. Stop it. The thing that charges you will come don't rush it.

We are old enough to remember things aren't supposed to be this fucked up and too young to have noticed the change happen. Denying the red pill prevents you from seeing past the lrogramming but leaves one always knowing something is wrong. That dissatisfaction leads to depression. We remember the truth but have been conditioned to deny it.

Life sucks either way. At least I have a target for my anger

>Why is Gen X killing themselves?
they would literally rather commit suicide than admit they were wrong.

pic semi related

I'm pretty sure that's going to be every generation past the boomers.

pfft. No.
>don't go where you're not invited

Nature is fixing itself.

Because we are the children of boomers who encouraged us to be "independent".
What that really meant is that they were so fucking self absorbed that they wanted us to take care of ourselves.
Most of us were latch key kids from the age of 6 or so.

nihilism is the only real truth there is though. almost everyone I know is a nihilist now

We we're raised as friends to our parents. They shunned the traditions that their parents grew up with. So, in turn, we were allowed to have more self realization than most and we were the first generation to have rebellion rewarded. We did too many drugs and got too many tattoos. That has left us under employed and left behind. It's a simple case of the squeaky wheel gets the oil, and millenials are far squeakier.

Sorry, I turn 40 in 2 weeks. Probably just having a midlife crisis. If I ever an hero, I'll share it here...

Don't worry bro I have a great job, make a lot of money, live on my own, sports car, in shape, and i still fucking hate myself lol.

I feel the pull though my dude I just want a wife and kids but they don't exist in my area, and the only reason I don't off myself is because of my family.

I care more about hurting my family then my happiness if that makes any sense.

to add to this horrible fucking divorce law. no reason to do anything anymore because as soon as the going gets tough a woman can take half your money and collect weekly paychecks while starting a new family. Effectively being paid to be a stay at home mom with the new family.

That macro is terrible and you know why.

He's a LARPfag

Generations is over 20 years old now and it's absolutely stood the test of time. Predictions still on point.
Writers have been prolific on the topic

>>terrible anxiety makes it difficult for me to do anything to better myself
>>drinking too much coffee

maybe if you weren't so hopped up on coffee you wouldn't be so anxious?

Yo settle down, its obvious someone will be different after growing up as a kid in the 80s.

All of that endless wonder and beauty, best kids movies, awesome kid friendly music, Michael Jackson, then life has gone non-stop downhill for us.

Clinton was a little worse than Reagan, Bush was a lot worse, Obama was a disappointment, Trump is a joke (but hes our joke and we love the guy anyway which is fine), seems like even with all the new technology life is getting worse.

Then you are forced to watch Gen Z/Millennials with their perfect teeth and bodies, having the time of their lives on Insta, it makes you just want to die.

If I was a 45 year old I would be greatly considering suicide, I already am afraid to see myself in 7 years and if everything ends up as I think it will, I will probably hang myself. Trump will be a huge failure, our next president is Elizabeth fucking pocahontas Warren, what is there to live for?

Women can pretty much get a nursing job, be set for life and riding the cock carousel and even if no man wants to fuck you at least there is kids.

Men have a fucking BITCH time getting a steady easy job anymore and rarely get custody of kids, plus we have like 10% the sex of chicks.

This sounds about right.

Soo right ^^^

Getting old sucks. I'll also livestream it if i ever an hero. Pinkie swear.

Fukn depressing here tonight
Move or find & drag someone back there

A sad truth

No way can the Gen X suicide rate be higher than the Millennium suicide rate.

Smart phones and social media have caused us to be more isolated with more anxiety leading to depression and then suicide.

>early 90s
>teenagers
>Gen X

I kek'd, that's Gen Y.

But I'd say it's probably because they grew up in the age of high drug use and parties and loud rock music, and then they learned they can't do that when they're functioning adults having families, so they become depressed and kill themselves over the lack of CUHRAAZZY lifestyle that they used to have, tbqh. Not to mention they completely fucked the economy.

Stop posting in Sup Forums and go to /fit/. Get a job that exhausts you. Join the army. Put yourself to work. Do something.

this

And they wonder why every other millenial and gen x is doing heroin to escape this miserable reality.

>waah my dad didn't beat me as a kid wah boo hoo

Say an Our Father for Chris Cornell. Suicide is a serious offense, may God forgive him.

I think Gen X is pushing higher suicide statistics now as Gen X is solidly into mid life crisis mode. Give Millenials a few more years and they will be in the running for higher suicide statistics.

> buck up, kiddo!
Most states do not do 50/50. Must meet a lot of requirements to get alimony like that. Most states are moving toward shared parenting means no child support and everyone has time to work
California is fucked and likes to convince the rest of the country they are bound by Cali rules, they're not. Move to the red and live your life already. No ragrets

Because I'm not strung-out...?
I'm pretty normal as long as I get my heroin.

No I'm not, see pic

I live in commiefornia. Its a sesspool of women only looking to get a kid and bone out a year later with half your shit plus alimony.

1, boomers are our (((parents)))
2, (((feminists))) are our mates
3, (((they))) have labeled us white trash and openly antagonize us at every level professionally and in academia

mass unemployment had become normal for the first time in history.

The last of Gen X didn't get out of high school till the early to mid 90s. Millenials didn't start graduating high school until late 90s. Get your generations straight retard.

Can you take even more heroin? Like enough to kill yourself?

I have tried im 27 and it seems like everyone of them is so liberal I can't even look past it.

I told a girl that if we ever had kids that I would like her to be with the kids for the early years as daycares are not good.

That was enough for her to call me a misogynist and unfriend me.

Me willing to bank roll a family is a bad thing I guess. I refuse to be with some 30 something used up whore then is now ready never ever.

Yep - real GenX here too - there was enough of old 'Merica in the 70s to know what it was like, and enough post-hippie BS starting to settle in to know where it was going. And gone there it has.

Most of my HS teachers were draft dodgers from the Vietnam War. There was an exemption for becoming a teacher - it was already bad then, and it explains why my children have been subjected to progressive brainwashing all through their school years.

Our generation was assigned the "slacker" team because the Baby Boomers have always expected us to just keep grinding away to pay for their Viagra. If you don't think they'll protest congress to find some constitutional right to have someone else pay for their boners when they're 80 - then you really don't understand Boomers.

If I overdose now then I miss out on all the highs I'd miss being dead and all

You had a dad?

So 4 years is an entire generational difference?

Nihilism is a black hole; once you're in it you can never get out. Maybe this is the Great Filter. Once a species gains an understanding of the universe, it loses its will to live.

Dont do it.

There is no help available virtue signal fag.

Gen X was stuck in the middle of boomer bullshit—Early Boomers were the shitty 60s/70s hippies, late Boomers became the fucking yuppies of the 80s.

Most of Gen X had parents from the Silent Generation, the people who grew up at the end of the Great Depression but were mostly too young to be drafted for WWII.

They taught us to be frugal, and sensible. Keep your head down and work hard.

But we ended up watching society crumble during our childhood.
Some of us got a few years that were similar to what you’d imagine growing up in the 50s would be like: Watching Andy Griffith and Leave it to Beaver reruns on TV, playing with other kids till dark, family and neighborhood picnics, riding bicycles, shooting at tin cans, leaving Christmas presents in mailbox for the mailman.

And then it all went away. The energy crisis. Stranger Danger. The Iran hostage crisis. The Cold War intensifying. Watching Reagan shot on TV, over and over and over. Feminists bitching louder and louder. The War on Drugs. Divorce rates skyrocketing.

We did get to watch technology begin to transform the world.
I had a pager in 1991. It cost $50 a month. A friend of mine had a cel phone. It weighed 8lbs.

There are very few Gen X in politics, because the Boomers hold on to everything until they suck the life out of it.
Plus, most of us just don’t give a shit anymore. We gave up and became nihilists because our generation was too small to really do shit.

Some of us grumble a bit and get on with life. Some play dumb and ignore the decline. Some of the second group get bitchslapped into reality too hard and off themselves.

How many grams do you have stashed away and can you airmail me some? I'm almost out and I'm bored, broke, and depressed.