According to a Finnish report, suicidal teenagers and young adult men often exhibited psychiatric problems when they were 8 years old. Suicidal women, on the other hand, succumb to depressions that develop after puberty, reports Reuters.
The study tracked 5,302 people born in 1981. Fifty-four of those people had either committed suicide or made a serious suicide attempt by the age of 24. Males attempted 27 of those suicides with 78 percent of them screening positive on parent or teacher Rutter scales at the age of eight. Only 11 percent of the females who attempted suicide were screened positive.
Among males, suicide attempts were paralleled by living in a non-intact family at the age of eight, internalizing emotional problems or exhibiting hyperkinesia, a disorder characterized by excessive activity, extreme restlessness, impulsivity, and a short attention span.
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