Do economic classes affect the percentage of suicide rates? All types of people, rich and poor commit suicide, but suicide and suicide prevention are growing. The lives of about 4600 young people are lost because of suicide every year (Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2014). So what is the country offering to help? There are many programs and treatments to help those who have resorted to or contemplated suicide. Specialized programs have been created, but not all are accessible. Money issues make it hard for some to access treatment. Economic classes are important factors in success rates of suicidal teens who receive treatment and those who do not. For young people between the ages of 1024, suicide is the third leading cause of death (CDC, 2014). Suicide is preventable, but we need to be aware of the causes, treatments and solutions.
Being Aware Is Critical
Preventing suicide requires people to have knowledge and understanding. It is best to be informed about signs, causes and forms of suicide. Signs of suicide may be very hard to detect; the signs can be subtle. Causes of suicide may come from home, but they also occur at school. Bullying, stress, low self esteem, and abuse are all leading factors in suicide (CDC, 2014;Suicide Awareness Voices of Education [SAVE], 2014).
Being a student, young people have many chances and opportunities to either prevent or cause suicide. People are pushed past their limits everyday. Out of all high school students, seven percent have attempted suicide, meaning they didn't succeed (Bullying Statistics, n.d.). Maybe they had someone who tried helping them. Knowing the facts and being aware does make a difference. One person could be the difference between life and death.
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Approximately 24% of 12-17 year olds have considered suicide and up to 10% have attempted suicide.” (Suicide Intervention Training PG 3). Teens today are very likely to commit suicide for various reasons. In today’s society there are a lot of judging and bullying cases around the world. No matter how much we promote a bully free zone there will always be a couple of cliques, or individuals, who want to bring others down and who do not know the seriousness of bullying. Although bullying is a big cause of suicide, the leading cause is a mental illness that many people are familiar with called depression. “Psychiatric disorders can affect diverse aspects of an individual’s life.”( Dispelling Myth Surrounding Teen Suicide, PG 1). If you or someone you know seems down most of the time, the best thing to do is to go see someone about your despair. If you are diagnosed with depression, prescribed depression medicine can help and can be one way to prevent suicidal thoughts or actions. “There is a lot of evidence that suicide is preventable.”(Cont. Principles of Suicide Prevention, PG
A mother finds her 17 year old teenage son hanging from the rafters of their basement. To hear of this occurrence is not rare in society today. Every 90 minutes a teenager in this country commits suicide. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15-24 year olds. The National suicide rate has increased 78% between 1952 and 1992. The rate for 15-19 year olds rose from two per 100,000 to 12.9, more than 600 percent. (Special report, Killing the Pain, Rae Coulli)
According to an article written by Daniel Reidenberg, every year in America, there are over thirty-four thousand deaths due to suicide. Every thirty-eight seconds there is a person attempting to take their own life. Every fifteen minutes, someone succeeds in their attempt of suicide. Reidenberg mentions that in the last decade, the number of deaths by suicide has increased. He states that we, the people of America, need to take mental illnesses more seriously. They are just as bad as any other disease, just a disease that unfortunately lands in the brain and changes one’s “thoughts, feelings, and behavior.” Mental illnesses are a huge cause of suicide. According to a presentation made by Dr. Lakshmi Vijayakumar, the suicide rates in the Americas have increased by forty percent since 2000. Marsha Linehan preaches about how the suicide rates today are the highest they have ever been. Linehan, Dr. Vijayakumar and Reidenberg, despite being unable to predict the future of suicide rates, all know that without a change in the way we treat it,
In the past decade, suicide rates have been on the incline; especially among men. According to the New York Times (2013), “From 1999 to 2010, the suicide rate among Americans ages 35 to 64 rose by nearly 30 percent… The suicid...
Teen suicide can result from a number of scenarios. When you hear of teens who commit suicide, a lot of people would think it's due to the most common cases which are unhappiness or depression. But in fact, there are different factors to what causes suicide. For an example, as stated in the article Teen Suicide from Kids Health, teens attempt suicide for multiple reasons. These reasons revolve around psychological problems such as anxiety, bipolar disorders, or drug abuse or even dealing with bisexuality or homosexuality in an unsupportive family or hostile school environment. The individuals who usually face th...
“Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse, suicide eliminates the chance of it getting better,” said tumblr.com. Suicide is the act of taking of your life on purpose, and people in the United States, from the age of 10 to 65, have been committing suicide since the mid 1900’s. The rich and the famous go through suicidal thoughts and sometimes put it into their work; this process has been going on for decades. Committing suicide is a person trying to escape the pain and aloneness that can plague them, through things such as divorce, depression, school, a close relative or friend passing away or even just by themselves being a bully. Most teens need help and are too afraid to ask for it. If a person is aware of the symptoms and the behavior leading up to it, a life is savable. Why some teens commit suicide: what are some of the actions or feelings, and what causes an individual to consider this rashness, what are possible consequences, and harsh treatment or prevention options.
Teenage suicide is a tough subject to talk about or deal with if you are close to someone affected. There can be several causes or warning signs to watch for because one experience may be different for every person. But since it is one hundred percent preventable, there are countless numbers of things that can be done to help. Suicide is something that can be easily stopped, so anyone can help out and make it known there is always people or places you can go to for help because suicide is never the answer.
There are four different types of suicide, they are different so when people say they committed suicide there are multiple reasons why they did it. The four different types are Egoistic, Anomic, Altruistic, and Fatalistic. They all have four different meaning, but the most reason is because of depression. There are many different reasons bullying is a big issue with people doing this and having thoughts of doing this. It is because people do not care how they treat other people
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Before elaborating on what causes suicide it should be understood what we mean by cause. The Oxford English Dictionary defines cause as “a person or thing that gives rise to an action, phenomenon or condition.” This essay will in part examine the methods employed by suicidal patients though this is secondary to whatever caused them to make this decision. The essay will consider the epidemiology of suicide (also regarding suicide clustering) followed by the potential genetic risk factors. This will be followed by the psychological factors such as depressive disorders, and finally the environmental risk factors such as low socioeconomic status and substance abuse.
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“Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain” (I-10). Ending a life is a big step in the wrong direction for most. Suicide is the killing of oneself. Suicide happens every day, and everyday a family’s life is changed. Something needs to be done to raise awareness of that startling fact. Suicide is a much bigger problem than society will admit; the causes, methods, and prevention need to be discussed more openly.
The family can be just too ignorant about them or they might cause the harm to these people that lead them to kill themselves. The physicians might ignore the fact that their patients are capable of suicide. Lastly, the workplace, especially the schools are the main place of the cause of suicides because of bullying of their peers. These are just the three main things that can be responsible for a person’s suicide, there is probably a possible cause that can be held responsible for someone else’s suicide. Suicide is a very serious cause of death because it has its mystery that goes with it because people always find the reason why these people kill themselves.
Suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15 to 24 year olds, and the sixth leading cause for 5 to 14 year olds. Suicide accounts for twelve percent of the mortality in the adolescent and young adult group. Young males are more common than young woman suicides. These are only children who followed through with the suicide. For every successful suicide there are fifty to one hundred adolescent suicide attempts. In other words, more than five percent of all teenagers tried to commit suicide, and the number is still rising. It is scary to think that four percent of high school students have made a suicide attempt within the previous twelve months. In a small safe town like Avon, in the Avon High School where you and I practically live, you can see the faces of 22 students that have tried to commit suicide. That is enough to fill a classroom.