BBC: "Die stille Epidemie der männlichen Selbstmorde"

Die britische BBC berichtet:

Whatever the individual reasons that drive people to suicide, the one thing that puts you most at risk is being a man under the age of 35. (…) Suicide is the second most common way for a man between the ages of 15 and 34 to die. It is outstripped, only just, by road deaths. About 900 young men take their own lives each year, and they account for about 75% of all suicides in this age group. "You've had what is effectively an epidemic of young male suicide," says the National Director for Mental Health in England, Professor Louis Appleby. Between 1970 and 1998, the rate more than doubled. At its peak, five men were dying for every woman.

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