10 Biggest Causes of Suicide in America: Poverty, Bullying, Mental Illness

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3. Poverty

There is one really interesting research on the connection between the poverty and suicide, published at the Psych Central, done among 34,653 people age 20 years and older, with the conclusion that “income below $20,000 per year is associated with substantial psychopathologic characteristics and there is a need for targeted interventions to treat and prevent mental illness in this low-income sector of the population”, being probably the best portrayal how poverty can be one of the leading causes of suicide.

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