Let's Talk About Male Suicidality

up to 60 percent of men who kill

themselves have no evidence of mental

illness so I think one of the biggest

strategies that we're perpetrating right

now potentially is that when we look at

male suicide we are assuming that this

is a pathology of the mind this person

is sick instead of understanding that

it's possible that half of the men who

kill themselves or more don't kill

themselves because they're ill they kill

themselves because they're genuinely in

a position where death is the only way

out if we assume it's mental illness we

don't try to fix the problems that are

pushing them towards suicide really

really scary thing that's going on and

I'm not saying that mental illness does

not lead to suicide and people shouldn't

get therapy and things like that so when

I have a patient who's in a traumatic

and abusive relationship and they're

suicidal therapy may help them somewhat

the suicide but the most important thing

I can do for that person's suicidality

is to help them build a life where

they're no longer abused it's to change

something in their life not to change

them