harryha11er

OP talked about suicides, you talk about suicide attempts. Both of you are right, while women attempt suicide more often, men succeed at suicide more often and hence die by suicide more often (see Gender paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicide)

German here: Startled by your use of the word "Gangwahlschalter" (I had never heard the word before) I did a quick google search and apparently there is a German Dictionary company that actually tracks use of words and its synonyms. A query to their database confirmed my intuition that "Schalthebel" would be the word people would use. (src: https://www.dwds.de/r/plot/?view=1&corpus=zeitungenxl&norm=d...)