Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. This year, people around the globe will be using the annual event to reflect on the shocking rise of men posting selfies on social media to “raise awareness” of malesuicide.

According to some statistics I just made up, 92% of male social media users know at least one man who has made a #hashtag of his life and ended up committing a suicide selfie in the past six months alone.

Men like my Facebook friend, Barry from Preston, who posted a video of himself doing #22PushUps every day for #22days to raise awareness of the “fact” that #22veterans a day die by suicide – and then asked me to do the same.