Dennis Prager Show - Open Lines: Dennis on the Seriousness of Suicide
Aired: 2020-01-18
Duration: 04:53


=== Females and Suicide Attempts (04:52) ===

[00:00:00]  And I asked you what she tried.
[00:00:03]  You know, I mean, I'm sure you know, but many of our listeners may not.
[00:00:09]  Females try to commit suicide far more often than males, but males actually commit suicide far more often than females.
[00:00:18]  For females, it is usually a cry out of pain rather than a real, real attempt to kill oneself.
[00:00:28]  Thank God.
[00:00:29]  I mean, that's the last thing we would want.
[00:00:32]  So the obvious question is, what does she say was the reason?
[00:00:40]  Well, there's like, it's a real vague stuff.
[00:00:45]  You know what I mean?
[00:00:45]  It's like she feels sad all the time, disconnected from reality, and people don't like her.
[00:00:54]  But that's where I have to check myself because my...
[00:00:58]  My own view of it is like, I'm judging what she's saying because they sound superficial to me and it's stupid for me to do that, but I had a really hard childhood and she's had, you know, like, maybe it's wrong of me to look at it like that.
[00:01:18]  No, no, you are allowed to look at it in any way that conforms with reality.
[00:01:26]  It doesn't solve the problem, but I don't want you to change your perception of reality because of what's happened.
[00:01:35]  Does she love you or your wife, presuming you're living together?
[00:01:44]  Yeah, we're really good parents, and I can say that for a fact.
[00:01:49]  No, I believe you.
[00:01:53]  Does the issue of the pain that she would cause you ever arise in discussion?
[00:02:01]  That's just it.
[00:02:02]  Like, we started therapy through our insurance.
[00:02:05]  And, you know, when you don't have a lot of money, you go through things and you don't get the best of stuff.
[00:02:11]  And it's already been brought up a few times about pills.
[00:02:14]  And, you know, you brought this up, Dennis, earlier this week or late last week.
[00:02:19]  I can't remember about an article about somebody writing about...
[00:02:23]  It's on the rise with teenagers and stuff.
[00:02:25]  And you said that they don't talk about God.
[00:02:28]  And I agree with that.
[00:02:30]  And I feel guilty for that because I haven't been to church in like 10 years.
[00:02:35]  So I feel like maybe it's some of my responsibility because I don't want her to take pills.
[00:02:41]  I don't think they're...
[00:02:43]  I think they're lame.
[00:02:44]  I tried them when I was young and they don't work.
[00:02:47]  Well, look, it is a real issue that...
[00:02:51]  Kids today don't have anything to believe in.
[00:02:55]  They don't have America.
[00:02:56]  They don't have religion.
[00:03:00]  They don't have God.
[00:03:03]  And all they're told is how terrible their society is from its origins and how terrible their future is because the world may not even exist as they get older.
[00:03:15]  The left has ruined the childhood.
[00:03:19]  Of vast numbers of American children because everything the left touches it ruins and childhood is one more example.
[00:03:28]  Yes, I agree.
[00:03:29]  That's true.
[00:03:30]  Well, listen, I don't know if I said a single word that helps you, but I do believe that it is important for her to know the pain it would cause others.
[00:03:47]  And it's not too late to try to bring into her life, and all of you, to bring into your children's lives things to believe in.
[00:03:58]  Social justice isn't going to fill the vacuum.
[00:04:00]  For real leftists, it does.
[00:04:03]  The vacuum left in a post-Judeo-Christian world, post-American world.
[00:04:09]  That is filled by, I'm going to save the world against fossil fuels.
[00:04:14]  That's all it's about.
[00:04:16]  It's not because it's rational.
[00:04:18]  It's because it fills the vacuum of meaning caused by secular society.
[00:04:27]  These are secular religions.
[00:04:32]  Tom Steyer is as fanatical as the most fanatical Christian or Jew or Muslim living or whoever lived.
[00:04:41]  There is a zero difference.
[00:04:46]  The human being needs to believe in something.
[00:04:50]  It is the greatest need after food.