Middle aged men at greatest risk for suicide [View all]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/9553741/Loss-of-breadwinner-role-driving-rise-in-suicide-among-middle-aged-men-Samaritans-suggest.html

Family breakdown, improved rights for women and the collapse of traditional male-dominated industries have combined to create a crisis of “masculine identity”, a panel of psychologists, economists and social scientists concluded.
Together with male traits such as an unwillingness to talk about personal problems and heavier use of drink and drugs, it means they are now at far greater risk of suicidal tendencies than anyone else, the study commissioned by the Samaritans found.

Men aged between 35 and 55 are more than four times as likely to take their own lives as women of the same age, and more than twice as likely as younger men, according to official figures.

It looks like a group (Samaritans) is working on this. I hope they get the funding they need to address this expression of male-privilege. Shaming someone to the point of suicide for losing their job is despicable. We need to work on getting this view to change.