Quote Originally Posted by waddles
I wonder what the suicide rates are for each type.

I'll add

I'm not saying chemical or anatomical things don't play a part in depression, but i think that most of it is environmental and that the brain could make itself "sick" if it is constantly exposed to negative stimuli.
Do you know about this book: "On suicide" by Emile Durkheim?

It's a sociology approach on it

There are a few interesting ideas. Firstly, he aims to demostrate the exterior source of suicide.

-the hereditar influence is reduced to a very general and indefinite predisposition. Therefore, the individual propensity is not a determinant cause
-it is demonstrated the link between the social rhythmes and the extent of this phenomenon:
***the suicides occur more often during the day, than at night;
***their number is growing along with the daylight lenght throughout a year, as the statistics show the following order of the biased seasons: summer, spring, autumn and winter;
***they occur more frequent at the beginning of the week than in the weekend

-the proportion is greater with ageing
-it is related with religion, more frequent among protestants than chatolics, and among chatolics than Jewish
-also related with the dimensions of the home living


The conclusion of the entire study is that suicide is inverse proportional with the social integration in the community of which the individuals make part of