Regarding Suicide Prevention…

Explore how environmental factors, not genetics, drive suicide rates and the urgent need to heal psychological trauma within families.

Why Acknowledging Environmental Causes Can Lower Suicide Rates

The text argues that suicide rates won’t decrease until society acknowledges that suicide is caused by environmental factors rather than genetic ones. It emphasizes the need to focus on healing psychological trauma within families rather than treating individuals in isolation. Current support systems are inadequate, leading to rising suicide rates.

There will be no reduction in suicide rates until everyone finally accepts that suicide is entirely environmental (nurture). There is no suicide gene (nature). There is and never has been a living being born with a self-destruct encoding in their DNA. ALL beings are born with an innate instinct to survive.

There are two types of self-termination: Type 1 happens to facilitate the survival of the group and can occur in species of any intelligence level. Type 2 occurs in higher-thinking species when the individual perceives they have run out of adaptive options to survive as an individual within the group.

Putting the focus on the individual as defective and placing support outside of the family unit rather than focusing on environment as the cause of suicide has resulted in higher suicide rates.

Individual therapy, crisis hotlines, and hospitalizations only postpone suicide, they do not prevent it. If society wishes to ignore and avoid the complex task of fixing families because it is too daunting a task, the only remedy for suicide is to educate and adapt all providers of individual therapy, crisis hotlines, and hospitalizations to a focus on the healing of psychological trauma as the underlying cause of suicidal symptomology.

Until this change occurs, suicide rates will continue to climb.