In October, a mental health program shared alarming survey results: Nearly half of the respondents — all of whom were men aged 18 or older — scored above the threshold for probable major depression.
The study, conducted by HeadsUpGuys, a program from the University of British Columbia and Community Savings Credit Union, sought input from men living and working in Canada, but researchers have been following the trend elsewhere in the past decade.
Anne Case and Angus Deaton, economists at Princeton, published a paper in 2015 on a marked increase in the mortality rate of one group — middle-aged, non-Hispanic White men — largely due to “deaths of despair,” namely drug and alcohol overdoses, suicide, and chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis.
