Hello, Men Commit Suicide More. You Care To Know Why?

While the world is selfishly focusing on feminism, and empowering the girl child alone...

The prisons get congested with men- Because, nobody is mentoring the boys anymore. They are growing up without proper education and information needed to live a decent life.

But that's not for today, Do you know?

Though mental health issues are less taboo than they were in the past, and certainly more people are getting treated for them (at least pharmaceutically), the suicide rate is still high – especially for men. The World Health Organization estimates that about one million people take their own lives each year, and this is not counting those who attempt it but are not “successful.” In just about every country, men commit suicide more frequently than women, which is intriguing since women typically have higher (at least, reported) rates of mental health disorders like depression. A new study looked at the factors that might explain why certain groups of men are so much more likely than women to take their own lives. Why?

The society places much more expectations on men- With the current economic dispensation, men have had to "toughen" up and "man" up with their expectations. They indulge in more side hustles, they take sometimes unreasonable business risks, they indulge in illegitimate business more than the women. And most times, when the consequences of these things backfires, they gradually fall into depression and sometimes take their own lives.

The inflation rate in the market has added more pressure for family upkeep. One paint of garri used to be N200 naira now, it goes as high as N800 in the market. To cook a soup of N1,000 now demands proper planning and serious price-battering in the market. Even so, the soup finishes in the span of two days. Wives now demand for more money from the husbands. The husbands feel the financial pressure and they gradually fall into depression, hence to commit suicide isn't farfetched!

Respect for men is gradually dimishing- In the last few decades, more women and wives have seen the need to be amongst the working class. Many wives now see the need to support their husbands finacially, hence, they join their husbands in the labour market. However, as much as this development has helped to check the financial stabilities in many homes, it is also dragging along with it, the diminshing respect most wives have for their husbands. Many women now feel that, if they share the financial burden in the home, men too need to share the burden of house chores and babysitting. This theory most times don't sit too well with the men. Except for few who don't mind doing some home chores, most men vividly see home chores and babysitting as exclusively for the women. And if arguments as regard this contemporary sharing of responsibilities come up, the women are quick to blame the men for not being able to "provide" all that is needed at home. Hence, men start feeling low. The long reoccurence of this incessant argument on who pay which bill(s), and who should do which chore, often times lead to domestic violence. The women either die in the process, sustain injury and eventually leave the marriage or they approach the court. Either way, the men fall into depression and commit suicide or bag a jailterm and some simply walk away.

The increase in rape- Lately, the news of a female child being abused by an adult man now flies all over the place. This is an evidence that more men now indulge in sexually molesting young female child. And when some of these men are caught, they are either arrested and sent to jail or mobbed. Even so, the shame and stigma that arise from this shameful act perpetrated by the men often cause them to commit suicide.

But, is suicide the solution to all of these identified problems? The solution to these problems boils down to one thing. A stable and effective economic environment, flexible enough to reduce inflation rates, sane enough to allow the women respect the husbands more when they feel he is "manning" up financially, and a working legal system truthful enough to handle domestic violence properly and put perpetrators behind bars. Men too suffer rape, men too suffer domestic violence.