The Men’s Suicide Epidemic | Episode 525

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Episode 525

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The Men’s Suicide Epidemic | Episode 525

Good morning, folks — James from Survival Punk here. Today’s episode isn’t your usual talk about gear, prepping, or bushcraft. This one hits deeper.
We’re talking about the men’s suicide epidemic — a survival issue that too often goes unspoken. Because let’s be honest, the number one rule of survival is waking up tomorrow. If you don’t do that, nothing else matters.

A Personal Wake-Up Call

This topic came up after my wife saw a Facebook post about a friend’s brother who had taken his own life — a good guy, a family man. And it made us realize how common this story has become.
Men between 35 and 55 are at the highest risk, and that’s my age range. Statistically, men are three to four times more likely to die by suicide than women. It’s not talked about enough, and when it is, it’s often brushed aside or politicized. But this isn’t about politics — it’s about survival.

Why So Many Men Are Lost

There’s a constant, relentless message in society that being a man is somehow wrong — “toxic masculinity,” they call it. But what’s really toxic is telling young men they’re useless or broken by default.
From sitcoms portraying dads as bumbling idiots to online rhetoric questioning why men are even necessary, the result is confusion, isolation, and despair.
Many men have no clear mission. We’ve had no defining crisis to give our lives direction — no WWII-level test, no sense of purpose that previous generations had. Without a calling, a lot of men drift — and some don’t find their way back.

The Fallout of a Lost Purpose

Three generations — Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z — have all been affected.
We grind away at jobs, pay bills, and scroll through a world that seems to hate us. The military conflicts we did have, like Iraq and Afghanistan, were long, messy, and uncelebrated. There were no victory parades, just burnout and silence.
It’s no wonder veteran suicide rates are sky-high — around 22 a day. Purpose and belonging have been stripped away, and without those, survival loses meaning.

Rebuilding Brotherhood and Strength

The solution isn’t complicated — it’s

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