Depression Research and Treatment

Research Article

Suicidal Career in Severe Depression among Long-Term Survivors: In a Followup after 37–53 Years Suicide Attempts Appeared to End Long before Depression

Table 2

Characteristics of suicide attempts: severity and violence related to repetition by individuals (women + men).
 Severe attemptViolent attemptSevere and violentSevere and or violentNonsevere/violentTotal
Single attempt3 ( )6 ( )2 ( )7 ( )8 ( )16 ( )*
Repeated attempts7 ( )7 ( )5 ( )9 ( )3 ( )13 ( )*
Total 10 ( )13 ( )7 ( )16 ( )11 ( )29*
In two cases method and severity could not be concluded; hence the horizontal sum does not fit.
Severe and violent may refer to two different attempts. Two persons made 2 severe attempts and 3 persons made 2, 3, and 4 violent attempts, respectively.