The number of suicides among middle-aged Americans rose by 28 percent this past decade, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The number of suicides among middle-aged Americans rose by 28 percent this past decade, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The rate among whites is even more startling: A 40 percent increase in suicides from 1999 to 2010 among the age group 35 to 64. One theory blames the long economic recession. However, in the same period, suicide rates for younger and older people did not change, and there was little change in the rate among middle-aged blacks and Hispanics. (Suicide was the 10th leading cause of death nationwide among people 10 and over in 2009, accounting for 36,891 deaths, the CDC says, making it a greater health risk than hypertension, liver disease, HIV, Parkinson's, and homicide). At the same time, some are saying depression, a key cause, is mis-diagnosed or over-diagnosed. Why are more middle-aged Americans killing themselves?

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