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This disproportionately impact men and boys. Can't recommend "The Boy Crisis" enough as a must read. Or at least this TED talk: https://youtu.be/Qi1oN1icAYc htt

• Merrill 7y ago
  A similar study on attempted suicides would be interesting. IIRC, the rates of attempted suicides are more equal between men and women, but women fail more often since they use less effective means. There must also be a large number of people who drink or smoke themselves to death or who overdose on drugs, and effectively commit suicide.
  • wutbrodo 7y ago
    > IIRC, the rates of attempted suicides are more equal between men and women, but women fail more often since they use less effective means. It's a tricky stat to disentangle, as an attempted suicide gives us slightly different statistical information than a completed one. Namely, the odds that it was a "cry-for-help" attempt vs a serious one are naturally far lower for completed suicides. These are of course important in and of themselves, but it would be valuable to be able to tease out the two separate phenomena. That is to say, looking only at attempted suicides fails to capture the full picture in the way that looking only at completed ones does, but there's no easy way to disentangle the data we're actually interested in.