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This study may state the obvious, at least for some readers, but a new study out in the American Journal of Psychiatry asserts that a history of sexual abuse is strongly related to a history of suicide attempts in women, as opposed to in men. That’s a correlation, of course, and doesn’t pencil out to causation, but the broad finding doesn’t surprise me in the least. The study employed data on men and women in the UK, but I’d assume it is fairly applicable to the US.

Among women in the study who reported suffering sexual abuse 28 percent reported a history of suicide attempts and suicidality, men at a 7 percent rate. It’s not clear what kind of sexual abuse was going on–the data wasn’t broken out into rape and other forms of abuse–or at what age the abuse occurred, but it’s yet another powerful bit of evidence for the long-lingering effects of sexual abuse and for why it should be stopped.

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