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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: It's been estimated that women are twice as likely as men to experience major depression. It's also estimated that men are 3.5 times more likely to commit suicide compared to women. How does that work?
gpt
Suicide *attempts* are actually about equal between the sexes. *Deaths* from suicides are where men outnumber women. This mostly has to do with the methods chosen. Men have a tendency of picking more violent and sure ways of committing suicide (such as guns), whereas women more often attempt to commit suicide through more uncertain methods such as pills or slicing through wrists.

There are a whole load of hypothesis on why we see those different methods, some having to do with access (more men have guns, so they also have them more available to commit suicide with) to socialisation (the idea that women are more socialised to not cause a big fuss / mess, and therefore also chose suicide methods that will lead to a more intact corpse, which can be seen as, well, literally, not causing a mess i.e. less clean up)