Suicide Awareness Voices Of Education

Have you lost a person close to you to Suicide? The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) wants to help find better ways to help prevent the terrible last resort that is suicide, and the grief it can induce on people around the person ending his or her life. The AFSP hopes to create an environment that understands mental health by encouraging school districts, businesses, and communities to put mental health first. Most of all, it desires to bring hope to those affected by suicide.

That means that someone committed suicide every 12.9 minutes. Based on research, “90% of people who die by suicide have a potentially treatable mental disorder at the time of their death- a disorder that often has gone unrecognized and untreated” (“Understanding Suicide”). Most people are forced into involuntary hospitalization to get helped they do not want. This is to change their way of thinking but in all reality it can just push them over the edge. They no longer feel like they are the ones controlling their selves. Some people have mental illnesses such as: Schizophrenia or even just depression (Stevens). Certain things that create higher suicide risks are things such as: previous suicide attempt, mood disorders (Depression, Manic-Depression), Substance Abuse (Opiates, Alcohol), Schizophrenia, Personality Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Medical Illnesses (AID’s, Huntington’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Cancer). Every 18 minutes someone commits suicide out of the 7.125 billion people who live on the “surface of the Planet Earth that is 510,051,300 square kilometers…”(Jamison [page 107]). About one percent of Americans have Schizophrenia. People with this mental illness see, hear and feel other people or presents living around or inside them. It is an imbalance in a complex part of the brain (“What is Schizophrenia?”). Suicide is the second leading cause of death to females as opposed to the fourth leading cause of death in men. Suicide rates for young adults between 15 and 24 have increases three times as much between 1958 and 1878. “More than 5,000 young adults kill themselves each year,” (Flanders [page 22]), “as many as 12,000 children aged 5 to 14 are hospitalized every year for deliberate self-destructive acts, such as stabbing, burning, or taking a drug overdose.” Hospitalization is the most common way to help someone undergoing a mental illness or who has just attempted to commit suicide but

Suicide is still a major public health problem in the United States today. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) documents several disturbing statistics on suicide in America. The most significant one being that suicide is the eleventh leading cause of death in the United States across all age groups. (D’Orio, 2004) What most people don’t understand is that people who commit suicide are suffering from some sort of mental illness. Most people often see mental illness as a character flaw. People with mental illness are judged, misunderstood, often looked at as easy targets, and failures. What people do not understand is that any form of mental illness can lead to suicide. When it comes to suicide, people who attempt or take their life are afraid to ask for help because of being judged or misunderstood, and their families are left asking “why didn’t they ask for help?”

Suicide is a severe community health matter which can have lifelong negative consequences on individuals, families, and the society. Reduce suicidal risk factors and increase protective measures are the main objective of suicide prevention. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defined suicide as the “death caused by self-directed injurious behavior with intent to die as a result of the behavior; suicide attempt is “A non-fatal, self-directed, potentially injurious behavior with an intent to die as a result of the behavior; might not result in injury’; and suicidal ideation is “thinking about, considering, or planning suicide” (2015).

For many the concept of teenage suicide is almost always correlated with the psychological mindset of the individuals. However, there is a lot of the factors behind these horrifying events that actually are more sociologically related. These catastrophic events are directly correlated with interactions with the world. The loss of teenagers across the world is increasing and it is a subject that should be touched on in both sciences. Throughout this paper the study of teen suicide in the sociological view will be discussed by going through Emile Durkheim’s studies and the sub groups in which it can occur. These events are related back to such things as social rejection, religious beliefs and social situations. This paper will also touch on the different types of suicide and what the suicides correlate with. The main purpose of this paper is to show how teen suicide is not only a psychological problem with students but to breakdown the areas in which cause these feelings.

Discovering one’s identity, struggling to understand one’s conventionally appropriate gender role, accepting one’s body image, gaining independence from parents, maintaining responsible sexual relationships along with enduring vehement hormones, establishing values relating to marriage and parenthood, and simultaneously managing academic goals, extracurricular activities, and occupational preparations are all psychological and social demands placed on the adolescent. These demands, along with additional factors, such as bullying, drug use/domestic substance abuse, domestic violence, divorce of parents, rape/sexual assault, loss of a loved one, heartbreak, low socioeconomic status, health problems, race, ethnicity, struggles with self-identification, and other traumatic experiences can all increase one’s likelihood to commit suicide.

Methods Analysis." Journal of Youth & Adolescence, vol. 46, no. 7, July 2017, pp. 1598-1610.

Suicide has historically been and continues to be a significant issue in the United States, for civilians as well as active duty military service members and veterans. While statistics surrounding suicide appear to be just numbers on a page, I personally implore the reader of the following paper to never lose sight of the fact that those numbers represent real people. Each one of those people, be they civilian or military, represent a loss of a father or a mother, a brother or a sister, a son or a daughter, a best friend, a comrade, …a person whose life, and that life’s potential, is now forever lost. The following statistics on suicide rates in the United States do not differentiate if the individual was a civilian, an active duty

Have you ever been through a tough situation and felt like there was no solution? Many people do and unfortunately many people also solve their solution by ending their life. In fact, every 13 minutes, someone commits suicide in the U.S (http://www.save.org/). Whether your friends or acquaintances, chances are you will know someone who has committed suicide. However, this doesn’t have to be the case. Urban Meyer, current coach of the Ohio State football team, once stated, “Are you going to be the problem or the solution?” An organization known as the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) has decided they will be the solution to suicide.

Suicide has always been looked down upon and people would do just about everything in their willpower to prevent it. There are plenty methods to avert people from committing suicide such as the suicide health prevention hotline, support groups, friends, and family. However, all these methods are not as resourceful when the person is already dying. And, if the one who wants to commit suicide is lying in their death bed enduring an excruciating pain, then do the people who oppose suicide have the right to intervene with the dying person’s last wishes? Physician-assisted suicide is a practice where doctors decide to help end their hopelessly ill patient’s life painlessly even if he or she requests for it (Assisted Suicide). If doctors do follow the patient’s desired death, then are the doctors sending subliminal message saying these patients’ lives are now meaningless. Many believe the doctors treating the patients do not have the right to take lives instead save them, which leads to the religious factor in this situation. They believe the only way someone can be taken from this world is through the hands of God and any other way is simply wrong and immoral. Death is a delicate topic many try to ignore for however long they are able to. Humans have a very difficult time coping with the death of a loved one, so it is much harder for the friends and family to accept than the terminally ill. Although physician-assisted suicide permanently relieves the pain of a dying patient, PAS

The American Foundation of Suicide Prevention is a non-profit organization acknowledges that suicide and mental health problems are part of our society and by understanding this we can better support those in need, and suicide affects a tremendous amount of people and proper education and treatment can prevent people from committing suicide. “Each year in the United States, suicide claims over 40,000 lives - more than war, murder, and natural disasters combined…Suicide is not just a faceless health issue for our society - it affects real people.” (1.) The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) which was founded in 1987, is one of the leaders in fighting against suicide by offers research, education to those in need, and supports those people and their families that are affected by suicide.

Morning came much too quickly, I barely managed a few hours of sleep. A beam of light shot straight into my vision, having penetrated the thin curtains. The droning of my alarm clock piercing my sub conscious. I would have to find a taxi to drive me to my workplace, so I left earlier than normal.

What happened? The parents of an 18-year-old student are suing Loudoun County Public School counselor and the school district in Virginia, for damages for the deprivation of their son amounting to Five million dollars for damages for mental torture, the loss of future security and upkeep of their son and funeral expenses. The counselor violated LCPS’ standards, after learning the teen was at risk of taking his life, giving no notice to the student’s parents or principal and not setting up a suicide prevention plan with the teen (Balingit, 2016). Another complaint was also cited in the article of a pupil in 2015 from the same high school under the direction of the same counselor took her life. The advocate also informed by a friend that she

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.

SEPTEMBER IS SUICIDE PREVENTION AWARENESS MONTH – DID YOU KNOW? Some suicides are planned in advance but the majority of suicides and attempts occur within an hour of a crisis and are impulsive reactions to stress. Numerous studies indicate that while easy access to a lethal method (means) of death reduces the likelihood of survival, limiting access to lethal methods can be lifesaving. Firearms are the most lethal and common method of suicide across both U.S. military and civilian populations. Learn more about Navy's guidance for reducing access to lethal means through voluntary storage of privately owned firearms in NAVADMIN 263/14. For additional information regarding Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, visit www.suicide.navy.mil. To