The Brave Voices Who Are Helping Dissolve The Stigma Around Mental Health

The Brave Voices Who Are Helping Dissolve The Stigma Around Mental Health Mental health in the U.S. is not in a great place right now. One piece of evidence of this reality is that the suicide rate is rising, according to a new study by the CDC. From 1999 to 2014, in the U.S. it rose by 24%, and it’s risen in almost every group of people in the U.S. The greatest increase in the last 15 years was in women, especially those aged 45-64, and, most devastatingly, in very young women, aged 10-14. As the CDC points out, “Suicide is increasing against the backdrop of generally declining mortality.” Of course, an increasing suicide rate is a sign of mental health, not physical health. So to understand its causes and solutions, we have to look in very different places from those related to physical health.