Teen Suicide Essay

A mother comes home from work expecting to see her son greet her, but instead she gets

silence. She walks around her home trying to find her son but doesn’t find anything, but when

she enters her rooms she lets out a scream and bursts into tears. Her son is on the floor with a

hole through his head and a pistol dropped near his body. Through her blurry vision she notices a

letter on her son’s desk. As she reads it she realizes her son had committed suicide because he

was getting bullied at school every day for the past year. She cries harder realizing she never

paid much attention to him to notice he was feeling this way because she was too busy with

work. Regret fills her mind for allowing this to happen to her son.

Suicide is one of the most common deaths among teenagers due to problems that occur in

people’s lives. This death can be caused by different factors: family issues or school can cause it.

There are other problems that lead to suicide. Articles state that sometimes environments, such

as where they live, can affect them. Depression is one of the reasons people commit suicide,

because they feel a sense of hopelessness. All of these problems and factors come into play when

a teenager is depressed. Brain development may be another cause since teen brains are still

developing in certain areas of the brain. Suicide seems to be caused by many factors which can

add on through time creating more pressure on them when they already have problems.

One of the main causes of suicide is the pressure of other teens around them. Sometimes

teens are pressured to fit in with others to be considered “popular”, but this ends up making their

emotional situation worse. Also, hanging out with the wrong crowd ...

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...icide is caused by simple factors that occurred in their

life but it’s usually more than one factor that causes it. The teen doesn’t all of a sudden wish to

die, but slowly ends up having these suicidal thoughts by negative events happening in their life

which lead to them not wanting to live anymore. Also, not having someone to properly talk to

and confine in can contribute to their thoughts more. The reason being because they’re bottling

up all their thoughts and problems and don’t tell anyone about it. Even if parents can’t prevent

the problems going on in their teen’s life they can help prevent the suicidal thoughts from

appearing. The simply just have to pay attention to their teen and give them major moral support

telling them they’re there for them. This will help minimize suicidal greatly because they’ll

know someone actually cares for them.