Posted on 01/14/2024 5:47:43 AM PST by dennisw
A disturbing number of suicides are sweeping America's party-obsessed ski towns, raising the alarm over why so many residents in vacation hotspots are taking their own lives.
Often dubbed the 'paradise paradox' by mental health experts, high-altitude party towns in the Rockies are seeing record numbers of suicides that stand in stark contrast to the picturesque lifestyle they claim to offer.
Factors leading to the rise include the transient way of life on the slopes, financial instability, isolation from cities, and a lack of decent mental healthcare investment from tourism-focused local governments.
As Victoria Mendoza, a 17-year-old resident of Grand Junction, Colorado, put it to NPR in 2018 after seven teenagers killed themselves in her town that year: 'It feels like there's this cloud around our whole valley.'
'I lost five people in 18 months': Chilling mystery behind America's ski town 'Suicide Belt' - and why FOUR out of the six states with highest suicide rates are in the Rockies Ski towns across the Rockies are seeing an alarming surge in suicide rates
The 'paradise paradox' sees party hotspots become sad places to live Experts note transient mountain lifestyles and a lack of services as the cause
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You went there the wrong time. May through August are the non-R months, the wrong months for lobster.
Understood
Trust fund people
Where I live
10k population on a coast city in Hawaii
A guy was missing
Found a year later
Hanging from a tree 80 ft from his abandoned truck
On an empty overgrown lot
Next to a Macdonalds
I asked a bartender from Vail Colorado
If he ever rescued anyone
He said downtown one of his customers
Missing for months
Was found just a block away
In the spring thaw
Steamer clams get red tide. RT steamers made my lips numb a bit but nothing else.
https://bigthink.com/health/altitude-suicide/
A surprisingly strong link between altitude and suicide in the U.S.
Over the past two decades, researchers have observed that people living at higher altitudes have an increased risk of suicide. For every increase of 100 meters, suicide rates rise by 0.4 per 100,000 people. One explanation is that lower oxygen levels in the air interfere with brain activity. On the whole, living at higher altitudes reduces all-cause mortality. The reduction in cardiovascular disease and cancer outweighs elevated suicide rates.
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