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Why are suicide rates higher in males than females?

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Why are suicide rates higher in males than females?

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As the above authors pointed out, it’s a combination of social pressures on men to succeed, make a lot of money, little tolerance for failure to make money or advance in one’s career. It’s also a matter of men being less likely to seek treatment for treatable psychiatric ailments like unipolar of bipolar depression or generalized anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, and so forth, Men utilize far more violent & effective means to carry out suicide than females.

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Both genders attempt suicide at about the same rate, with females maybe attempting it more, but males usually achieve suicide at a higher rate than women, because they tend to use firearms instead of poisons.

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