Persuasive Speech On Suicide

Schools need to educate parents and children about mental health and illness. According to an article published by the Association for Children’s Mental Health, “1 in 5 children and youth have a diagnosable emotional, behavioral or mental health disorder and 1 in 10 young people have a mental health challenge that is severe enough to impair how they function at home, school or in the community” (Problems at School). Schools could hold educational meetings on mental health to inform and aid parents and children to determine when they need to address mental health. Additionally, incorporating a stronger mental health aspect in the state required health

In the United States, suicide is the third leading cause of death for 10 to 14-year-olds (CDC, 2015) and for 15 to 19-year-olds (Friedman, 2008). In 2013, 17.0% of students grades 9 to 12 in the United States seriously thought about committing suicide, 13.6% made a suicide plan, 8.0% attempted suicide, and 2.7% attempted suicide in which required medical attention (CDC, 2015). These alarming statistics show that there is something wrong with the way mental illness is handled in today’s society. Also, approximately 21% of all teenagers have a treatable mental illness (Friedman, 2008), although 60% do not receive the help that they need (Horowitz, Ballard, & Pao, 2009).

Teachers and staff will be trained to tell the if a student is experiencing symptoms of any type of mental health disorder. For example, if a student is having irregular mood swings or a fluctuation in weight, which are common symptoms of anxiety and depression. In the article, “Why Schools Should Screen Their Students' Mental Health”, it says,“If we made mental health part of the usual health system of a school, then it becomes more normal…”. If a student sees a positive outlook on mental health they would be opened to getting help. On some media platforms, mental health is portrayed as something to be ashamed of or a evil quality to posses. Mental health isn’t evil, it’s how the person deals with it that's important. Yes, if not treated it can cause negative effects but with the help from the community these children can live relatively normal lives. Children and adults struggle to comprehend the severity of mental illness, which causes them to avoid any form of treatment. In the future, mental health should become a thing not to be ashamed of. A person who broke a bone would go to the hospital right away, not wait for it to heal on its own. If you wouldn’t wait for a physical injury, why would you wait for

Thesis + preview: today I’m going to inform you about the increasing number of suicide deaths among teens, mental illnesses that can lead to suicide or self-harm, and the signs of someone that may be struggling with depression, self-harm, or suicidal thoughts. Transition: over the years mental

In the nursing field, there are several nursing interventions that exist. Suicide-awareness programs are a specific nursing intervention that could be used in a specific situation. For a nursing intervention to be effective, it must be proven through scientific research, making the intervention evidence-based practice. The purpose of this assignment is to utilize and evaluate evidence-based practice regarding a specific nursing intervention. The specific nursing intervention that has been chosen through article research is suicide-awareness programs and how they affect a nurses’ ability to recognize suicidal behaviors. The clinical question formulated from information in the article chosen for this assignment is, do nurses who receive short training programs along with a continuing education class monthly have improved ability to recognize suicidal behaviors compared to nurses who only attend the monthly continuing education class?

Life is important from when we were first made to natural death. God puts us all on this earth for a reason to love one another. That is why abortion needs to end because what if that person that was killed before birth was going to be the person to find the cure for cancer. With all the deaths due to abortion each year it is less people loving each other. We are just allowing people to kill babies that don’t even have a voice in the world yet. Everyone also needs to prevent assisted suicide because everyone needs to live until natural death.

Suicide is not just a effortless behavior it’s more of a complicated behavior. According to the website Save,”Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death.” (“Save. Suicide Awareness Voices of Education”). There’s different ways that can help us understand suicide by just learning about the different statistics, the risk factors that affect all ages, the four different types of suicide, and how it can also have an impact on other people around them.

As I walk down the hallways each school day, I wonder how many smiles are genuine and how many are fake. It sparks a curiosity within me and causes me to question, “How many people who passed by me ever contemplated suicide?” With higher rates of depression and suicide among teens, we need to be more keen in noticing the signs of mental illness. It is easy to pretend to be happy on the outside and hide the fact that you are suffering on the inside. People are becoming better at concealing their issues. Unfortunately, our society refuses to normalize mental illnesses and continues to attach stigmas to these disorders. This is why many people feel as if they must hide their emotions from the outside world.

Mental illness has been garnering an increasing amount of attention these days. Some belief it is actually increasing, but perhaps we as a society are finally learning to talk about it. In the past, the right thing to do was bottle up your emotions and tough it

In a bitter and sweet moment, the bodies of two missing California hikers were found on Friday. The couple had seemingly vanished for months.

The Netflix series 13 Reasons Why has been a popular topic for a large majority of teens and mental health experts. It is popular for its brutally honest portrayal of suicide, which some people, such as those from the National Association of School Psychologists, have severally mistaken as romanticism of the issue. The series not only expresses the vivid realities of suicide, it shines a light on what people actually feel that leads to this horrid act. What those people feel is extremely common and often overlooked because it is “not a real illness”, as claimed by the licensed psychologist Phil Hickey. It is time that our society began to stop hiding behind celebrity gossip and fashion trends, we need to begin discussing the more serious

During a mental health event the First Lady, Michelle Obama said, “At the root of this dilemma is the way we view mental health in this country. [...] Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it’s still an illness, and there should be no distinction.” This shows that mental illness stigma in society is based on mental illness being perceived more negatively than other physical illness when it should actually be seen as the same. Stigma around mental illness has had very immense adverse effects on the willingness of undiagnosed suffers to not seek treatment when they need it. As a result of this one in five people with a mental illness will not get the treatment they need which has the effect of high suicide rates among the untreated sufferers. In an effort to reduce stigma around mental illness, so that more undiagnosed sufferers seek treatment, schools should devote more time to increasing awareness of mental illness and its effects.

Three people in my life have completed suicide; my uncle, my mom’s late fiance, and my step brother on my dad’s side, within four years of each other. I’ve witnessed each parental figure in my life become compromised by grief and the inevitable pain accompanying it, and I’ve seen the way depression can plague someone so deeply, even without the ending of suicide. The prevalence and growing numbers of deaths by suicide calls for a revised manner of education on all mental illnesses and the preventative measures one can take to reduce risk. Initially, when I heard of the Suicide Prevention Week Keynote event with Jamie Tworkowski (founder of ‘To Write Love On Her Arms’) I was thrilled. Hosting such an event on a college campus, presenting to a population greatly affected by mental illness, is demonstrative of the steps that should be taken toward raising awareness. Any opportunity for a comprehensive view on mental health and its significance is one to be taken advantage of. However, as the night proceeded, I did take note of several things that would improve the layout of any future events, as well as further deepen an individual’s comprehension of mental illness.

My SLEP action plan is designed to educate the students of Boaz High School Health Science Department on the causes, signs and prevention of suicide attempts. I plan to make a pamphlet to hand out to all students who are in the health science classes. The pamphlets will include information for adolescents age 14-18 about suicide detection and prevention. When I met with the health science teacher on 1-26-17, she expressed that mental health, specifically

So this is a topic that I have been wanting to write for a very long time because I think that it is something that everyone has been impacted in some way or another. I kept making excuses why not to talk about this, but today while I was at work the song In The End by Linkin Park came on. Now if you know me very well at all you will know that Linkin Park is my favorite band of all time, and I think that most people know, but if you don't know their lead singer Chester Bennington committed suicide almost a month ago. The man was fighting demons of sexual abuse from when he was a kid along with drug and alcohol abuse for years and it caught up to him. He was the father of six kids and had a wife he had a successful career and seemed like a happy man. Yet, unfortunately, he took his life.