UK: It's society, not biology, that is making men more suicidal

Article here. Excerpt:

'Around thirteen men in the UK will kill themselves today, and the male suicide rate is at a 14-year high. Is it time to accept that society has become dangerously hostile to men, asks Mike Snelle.

'It's all in your head' has the same appeal as 'It’s all in the genes’", wrote Louis Menand in the New Yorker a few years ago. "An explanation for the way things are that does not threaten the way things are. Why should someone feel unhappy or engage in anti-social behaviour when that person is living in the freest and most prosperous nation on earth? It can’t be the system! There must be a flaw in the wiring somewhere.
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To say something is genetic in this context is to say that there is a genetic contribution to the way a person responds to their environment. At most it suggests a predisposition to certain behaviours. There is no inevitability about it. There are no behaviours regardless of environment, only behaviours given a particular environment. All this got me thinking.

Our culture treats people with depression is as if there is something wrong with them; a biological imbalance best treated with medication. But if it’s impossible to understand biology outside the context of environment, and there is a frightening increase in male suicide and depression, perhaps we need to take a closer look at the other variable - our environment. An increase in mental health problems, and in particular suicide rates amongst men, suggests that the environment we live in has become more hostile to men.

If depression is the mind's way of telling us there is something wrong in our environment, then the broader increase in male suicides is telling us that there is something wrong in our society.'