Suicide. Why is it is the 2nd biggest killer of young adults in Wyoming?

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Depression, isolation, exclusions, frustration, guns, drugs booze. What up?

Tourism is the #2 industry in Wyoming—tons of people come to this state every year because it’s uncrowded, open, and full of beautiful landscape.

But what happens to the people who have to wake up every day to life in Wyoming. What is it about this place that hits young male adults between 15 and 24 so hard that they pick up a gun, put it to their head and pull the trigger to get away from it?

You don’t need all the answers to help. Lets start with an opinion.

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mustang sally said...
It makes no sense why any one would do that. I guess the reason why is most young adults in Wyoming Want to do something and have to find things to keep them busy in all their free time. Between drinking beer and having guns probably isn't the best idea in the world. While drinking you get depressed and for some people like me for instance start to think bout everything going wrong in their life and just want to die to stop everyone's misery, but what we don't realize is that so much in our life is going right. Like a house, friends, family. Any little thing that you can find that is positive in your life helps. Thinking of the positive has helped stop me from commiting on many occasions! And you can also think where your at in life is only temporary depending on what you do depends on who you become where you will live and who you spend that with. just because everyone where you live isn't attractive to doesn't mean you have to go after those people.
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Jen-rad said...

i know. Rock Springs is so small. the people here all they do is drink. and it drives me insane. and i don't drink. and the guys thats what they do. so no one is attractive. i need help to get threw it. any ideas anyone?

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Confused said...

Yeh I have to agree because it's the same here, I'm not in wyoming I'm in Texas but I get what your saying, the town I live in is 1 mile ineach direction and the only thing we all had to do as bowl but they closed that down so now the only thing we can do is sit there feeling like it's over, life sucks because it seems like our own town doesn't want us around anymore makeing all the kids feel like outsiders in our own town.

Do y'all have any ideas as to how we can change that, at least a little bit...i'm hoping it might help stop alot of my friends from hurting them selves do to aloneness

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Dum Tacet Clamat said...

i think it's mostly the feeling of being alone. in areas with a denser population, you see people everywhere. there is always the chance to find someone around you, meet them, and have some form of friendship. In a place like wyoming, we are so limited on people and also on places that people our age can go. for instance, i live in cheyenne where they recently closed the mall to teens on friday and saturday nights. the public rejects our age group, making us all feel like outsiders in our own small, secluded towns.

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