Violent and Nonviolent Methods of Suicide: Different Patterns may be Found in men and Women With Severe Depression

This study investigated violent & nonviolent suicidal acts in men & women with severe depression. The records of 98 Swedish suicide victims admitted to hospital between 1956-1969 were evaluated. Subjects were monitored up to 1998. The female group displayed a significant linear trend for nonviolent completed suicide after one suicide attempt, & even more significantly, after repeated attempts. A switch from only nonviolent suicide attempts to completed violent suicide was significantly more common in men than in women. (33 refs.)