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#632 - Ed Hagen - The Evolutionary Psychology Of Anxiety & Depression

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The Cost of Suicide

In our society, we have guns, it's an extremely efficient way to kill yourself and men are much more likely to use those than women. And then the sex difference in those may be because of that physical form of ability difference that I talked about. So she just doesn't have the social partners and backup. It's a huge it may be worth the 1% or even 10% chance of killing herself if in the 90 to 90% number of times that this kind of behavior would happen. She convinces people that she's telling the truth and that actually stops the abuse. That benefit is at least in our theory why people are willing to take that extreme kind of action.

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