Chapter 448: The Biggest Enemy - Yourself
However, now, his biggest threat is still himself, his own demonic heart, that is, himself, is his worst enemy.
It's ironic......
However, Ye Chao is still alive strongly, and he did not choose to commit suicide.
As far as Ye Chao knows, the high suicide rate in Japan is said to be not just because of the pressure of life.
Suicide is indeed a social phenomenon in Japan today.
In terms of methods, there are many means. Simpler, a towel can be used to hang it, and more exciting, trams all over the country provide convenient channels for lying on the rails.
When a person feels lonely, there are also people who invite like-minded people to commit suicide on the Internet, and the beautiful Mt. Fuji tree sea "Aoki no Hara" is a good place for suicide people who feel bored at home.
As shown on television, the troubled teenager jumped off the school building without thinking about it...... And so on, a lot, a lot......
Statistically, the suicide rate in Japan is indeed high. According to the National Police Agency of Japan, it has always been in the front row of the world.
If you add the time limit, in fact, there are not many suicides in Japan at any time. For example, Japan's suicide rate was quite low during the post-war period of high economic growth.
As can be seen from the graph in the report mentioned above, the number of suicides in Japan is inversely proportional to the state of the Japanese economy.
The better the economy, the fewer suicides.
Looking at the current economic situation in Japan, it is not difficult to see that the number of suicides in Japan in recent years has a great relationship with the economic situation.
In addition, although I haven't seen the specific statistics, it seems that the earthquake in the Tohoku region also caused many suicides.
I guess the social environment of your youth also has some influence on your personality. Today's China is a bit like Japan back then. I saw a joke a while ago, but I forgot about it, to the effect that three people took the elevator upstairs, and when they got to the top of the building, someone asked them how they came up.
The first said I ran up, the second said I came up crouching, and the third said I did push-ups.
The elevator naturally refers to China, which is developing rapidly, and these three are the people who have made a contribution to this wave. Born in such an environment, natural people should be relatively optimistic, on the contrary, the times are bleak, and it seems that it is not so difficult to understand that it is easy to commit suicide.
However, it is undeniable that even during the period of rapid economic growth, when suicides were relatively low, the number of suicides in Japan reached 13 to 14 per 100,000 people. It ranks 66th out of 107 countries, which means that even if Japanese people don't commit suicide much, there are more people who want to die than in other countries.
Removing the reasons for age, there may indeed be some relatively stable and long-lasting reasons.
Another unrelated but interesting thing is that although Japan's suicide rate has been stable and at the forefront of the world over the years, China's suicide rate has been on a downward trend in recent decades. Moreover, in 2003, China was the only country in the world where the suicide rate of women was higher than that of men, which is relatively normal in the world. I don't know if it's good or bad......
There have been many suicides in Japan throughout history.
For example, the "suicide culture" of the Japanese samurai.
Japan has had this custom since the Heian period.
It is more acceptable to commit suicide before that than to be killed by the other party in shame on the battlefield. This kind of Japanese drama is not young and old, in addition, seppuku is probably very familiar to Chinese.
In this way, the samurai gave advice to the lord or expressed responsibility. The purpose of this practice varied somewhat from era to era, but in the Edo period, casual seppuku was considered a noble thing.
Culturally, Japanese people may care more about others than Chinese.
For a variety of reasons, Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world.
Today, however, Greenland has a higher suicide rate than Japan......
Ye Chao was surprised, but not surprised.
Greenland is located at a high latitude, the winters are very cold, the local people mostly rely on fishing and hunting for a living, the social pressure is not very competitive, and the population density is also very low, so it stands to reason that the people here should live a fairly easy life.
But the high suicide rate here has shocked the world.
This may be due to environmental factors, and after a long period of research into the reasons for the increase in suicide rates, it has been found that Greenland's geography seems to influence suicide rates more than cultural climate.
Greenland's winters are very cold and long, the days here are very short, most of the time people spend in the dark cold, the lack of sunlight for a long time will affect the serum hormone levels in the body, slowly people will become impulsive, and many people will suffer from underlying depression.
Even in the summer, the sunlight here is very different, and the bright direct sunlight spent at high latitudes can also affect people's sleep cycles, which can also affect people's physiology, and many people also suffer from seasonal affective disorder, which is easy to lose control of their emotions.
And although Greenland's work is not very stressful, too much idleness will also give rise to a series of social problems, 90% of people have the habit of alcoholism, drunk people can be seen everywhere on the street, from young to old, everyone is used to using alcohol to solve problems, but Greenlanders are quite accustomed to this.
However, some people do not agree with the view that darkness affects people, in their opinion, it is a variety of negative Internet culture in today's society that affects people, but dare not do anything, we should not give up life easily, although the night is long, but the sun will always come.
In fact, most people don't know what a cruel truth is hidden behind it: Greenland has the highest suicide rate in the world.
Greenland's suicide rate is 24 times higher than in the United States. Even in a depressed and stressful country like Japan, where only 51 people commit suicide every year for every 100,000 people, the number is more than 100 in Greenland.
Another frightening fact is that the main group of suicides in Greenland are teenagers.
In other countries, such as Japan, where the elderly are unemployed or hopeless for their lives, it can be seen that the phenomenon of suicide in Greenland is very unusual.
In particular, young men here account for more than half of the suicide rate, but the suicide rate among young women is also not low. According to a 2008 survey, one in four young women in Greenland has attempted suicide.
In Greenland, every young person knows someone who has committed suicide, and this is a new phenomenon that has never been seen before.
Ironically, in the early 1900s, Greenlanders lived a simple life of fishing and hunting for 4,000 years, and boasted of being the happiest city in the world with the lowest suicide rate, but from 1970 onwards, the number of suicides began to increase.
In those days, very few young people committed suicide.
Ludvig Sak?ussen, the former mayor of the remote fishing village of Sarfannguit, said that it may not sound like a lot, but there are only about 150 inhabitants in total.
Why is Greenland's suicide rate so high?
One reason for this is that people here are very familiar with suicide methods, and almost every Greenland home has at least one rifle for the annual reindeer and musk ox hunts. Of course, any rope, a fishing net, or a wire can be made into a hanging rope sleeve, which is called "the rope of our lord" in Greenlandic.
This, after Ye Chao heard about it, he was also drunk.
Ninety-one per cent of men who commit suicide choose to hang themselves or shoot themselves, compared to 70 per cent of women, so those who can't think of it have no chance of repentance.
So what is it that makes so many Greenlanders choose to end their own lives?
Some suspect that "contagious thoughts of melancholy" among teenagers may be the reason behind it. But expert Poelson blames the country's poverty and high rates of alcoholism and high ** rates, but admits she's only reasoning because about 88 percent of the island's Inuit population is plagued by rampant alcoholism.
Of course, there are also those who blame the seasonality for suicides, because winter always comes early in these places, and in northern Greenland, snow even starts two months early.
One might think that the suicide rate peaks in the harsh, dark winters, but the data confirms that most people commit suicide in the summer.
As a result, other studies have shown that the short but bright summer sun disrupts the winter sleep cycle and alters serotonin levels in the body, which has driven some Greenlanders crazy, especially in the Far North, where the sun stays above the horizon for weeks.
At this point, Poulson is grateful for the attention she has paid to the issue, but she seems skeptical of the solar suicide theory.
The sun has been present every summer for thousands of years, but suicide has only recently begun. Ye Chao thought it was a mystery, and in his opinion, the dark energy here was very strong......
This may also be one of the reasons.
A negative atmosphere can affect people's mood......
All kinds of phenomena made Ye Chao realize more clearly, whether it was him or others, the biggest enemy was often ...... Myself.
It is difficult to defeat others, and it is even more difficult to overcome yourself.