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Men are more likely than women to be suicidal
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
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Stanford University specialists were able to trace the relationship between gender and suicidal tendencies. It turned out that males are several times more likely to attempt suicide, which often leads to death. The media published the results of studies that proved that men are several times more likely to attempt suicide than women.
Statistics show that most often, lonely young men try to commit suicide, who, in their opinion, are not kept in this world by either family or close relatives. Among women, the number of misunderstood and despairing people is noticeably smaller. In most cases, if a woman attempts suicide, she may have complex mental disorders that require the attention of a specialist.
Suicides are usually divided into two types: true or truthful and demonstrative, which are also called parasuicides. The main difference is that the real goal of parasuicide is not to take one's own life, but to attract attention. Doctors believe that a person, during a suicide attempt, thus draws attention to himself and his problems. True suicide is usually a carefully planned action, which in most cases ends tragically. If a person's main goal is to take his own life, and not to cry for help, then such an attempt ends, so to speak, successfully. Among the causes of suicide, the most common are social reasons, reasons related to problems in personal life, medical reasons and mental illnesses.
Experts regularly conduct studies aimed at identifying special risk groups of people prone to suicide. For example, European scientists have found that young people are twice as likely to attempt suicide as older people. In addition to age, the researchers took into account gender, social status, and the presence of chronic and mental illnesses. Several years ago, a European university found that men are four times more likely to commit suicide than women. In turn, women attempt suicide much more often than men. Among men, the risk group includes the unemployed and those people who are considered unskilled and not very valuable employees. If we compare, the reason for suicide in women can be either a personal reason (for example, unhappy love or family drama), or a mental disorder (schizophrenia, severe depression). Social status and respect from society have a greater impact on men's suicidal tendencies.
American scientists, who have recently proven through research that men commit suicide three times more often, are confident that the problem can only be solved with qualified psychological help from medical specialists.
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