>>Economics, feeling of hopelessness, lack of healthcare (particularly mental health) are the causes of all this. At the end of the day it's all predicated by economics and the disparity between the haves and the have nots.
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>There's more to it.
>No generation suffered more difficult economic times (the great depression) than the guys who fought in WWII and they couldn't even spell mental health care.
>They won the war and came back to create the greatest economic boom in history.
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>Something else is going on.

When those guys came home from WWII the country went though one of the greatest economic booms of all time though. During the great depression, basically everyone was poor. It's not really possible to properly equate society in the USA today with what it was in the 1930's and 1940's either -- the whole world is a different place. Of course the problem is more complicated than the 1 sentence I laid out - -but it's the crux of the matter. No other time in our history has the life expectancy for males around 40 to 50 years old gone DOWN - which it's doing now.