The Causes Of Teen Suicide

Brandy Vela, an eighteen-year-old high school student, committed suicide right in front of her family. Due to all the bullying over her weight, and especially in social media, she pulled the trigger and ended her life. It is said that her sister had heard a noisy disturbance and when she went upstairs to her sister’s room, she found Vela holding a gun pointing at her chest. “She is just crying and crying and I’m like, ‘Brandy please don’t. Brandy no.’” Jacqueline the twenty two-year-old sister told Fox News. (Fox News-Texas Teen). Fox News said Brandy Vela was taken to Clear Lake Regional Medical Center immediately but died soon after. (Fox

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The second cause of teen suicide in the United States is pressure of family. Family is the one who always beside and exposure with teens the most. Most of parents want their children become more successful in their life. They have to study hard and work hard in school to get high scores. They don’t have their right to choose what they want to do. They have to study under their parents control, maybe they just a normal student in school, but their parents think that they are genius, and want them to have high status in society. Sometime, they don’t know what they want to do with their life, they just live for their parents’ passion, and when they fail, all blame is on them. That lead to their suicide.

Teen suicide is big in the USA today, Suicide is not something that can be overlooked. Teenhealths.org states that “It is the third leading cause of dealth in todays youth”.Young teens go threw depression, looking it all over its usally 15-24 year olds go threw this. Suicide is very traumatic when teens go threw all of these different types of depression an anxiety. In this essay, I want to express why this a big problem that we need to learn to notice because it's happening according to the jasons foundation “on average 1 person commits suicide every 16.2 minutes”. I really think that that’s very sad an I want that number to go down.

Suicide is the act of purposely killing of oneself and considered as a serious public health problem. Most often, suicidal individuals are trying to avoid emotional or physical pain that they cannot bear; sometimes, they are very angry and take their lives to last out others (Piotrowski, N. & Hartmann, P., 2016). According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that in 2012, approximately 40,000 suicides were reported in the United States, making suicide the 10th leading reported cause of death for persons aged ≥ 16 years. From 2000 to 2012, rates of suicide among persons in this age group increased 21.1% from 13.3 per 100,000 to 16.1. The World Health Organization reported that many millions of people are affected or experience suicide

Every year about 4,400 innocent people take their life for unnecessary reasons. (Elias 5,3) Whether it is due to personal problems, bullying or feeling not wanted. Although the teen suicide rates have not significantly increased or decreased within the last several decades (Elias 1,2)We want loved ones, class mates or friends still here with us to experience a life. But instead, there always has to be ruthless people in this world. Also some selfish people who just care about themselves and never see or ask how anyone else is. Someone whose life is already ruined tries to talk or plan about suicide to another person to try to get their life over with, so the messed up person who has a ruined life does not have to worry about anyone else who has such a good life ahead of them. (Alison 5,6)Teen suicide is an important issue because it threatens so many lives that have great potential.

Suicide is a serious problem in our high schools. Kids you wouldn't even think that would be contemplating suicide are. Suicide is the third most leading cause of death in teens. That is a large number of students. Why are teens deciding that suicide is the only way out or why suicide is the answer to life's struggle. The number of deaths is just too much and we really need to try to fix it.

This article is about a teenage couple facing turmoil in their relationship. This specific couple was dealing with an ultimately fatal matter, suicide. The initial issue contended in this article is whether the victims girlfriend should be held partially accountable in the late Conrad Roy’s suicide. The accused is Michelle Carter, who was a minor at the time of the incident and is accused of involuntary manslaughter in the case of Conrad Roy. The controversy of this subject immediately captivated my attention. The word suicide itself suggests self-intent. In a literal sense, suicide is Latin for suicidium, sui “of oneself” and cidium “a killing” (Harper, "Online Etymology Dictionary"). As I learned from previous psychology courses, a person with suicidal ideation and suicidal plans is already at a vulnerable mental state. In my opinion, in his vulnerable state Conrad did not stand a chance against Michelle’s persistence and manipulation. There is no denying that teen suicide is a huge issue today. I know from previous work that suicide ideation and suicidal attempts are common amongst teens because of all the changes occurring during this crucial developmental period. I do not think the finger can be pointed in one specific direction but rather in various directions. However, I do believe his death could have been prevented in several ways. For one, I believe it is the parent’s responsibility to know what is going on in their children’s lives whether you find out through

During the ripening age of teen years, many people feel lonely or useless in the world. In some cases, these feelings can end abruptly after the child takes their own life. Teen suicide went from being almost nonexistent in the 1960s to being the third largest cause of death in teens today.

Teen suicide is one of the leading causes of death among teens and a significant problem in the United States. Consequently, suicide is a tragedy not only for that person, but also for their family and friends that are left behind (Bell). Many teens of all races are affected by this intentional, self-inflicted death. Even though the causes of suicide can be hard to isolate, the signs can be linked to depression, drug abuse, emotional neglect of their parents, bullying, parents divorcing, sexual and domestic abuse.

The leading risk factors for adolescent suicide include: family history of suicide, previous suicide attempts, mental and psychological disorders, substance abuse, history of abuse, easy access to methods of suicide (ex. parents own a gun), death of a family member or friend, and last but not least lack of social support. It is important to take these risk factors very seriously.

Suicide is the leading cause of deaths of adolescents in Australia. In 2005, it was estimated that deaths caused by suicide was accounted for one- fifth of deaths among teenagers (Life communications, 2012) in 2012 it was estimated that 1,901 (16.8 per 100,000) males and 634 females (5.6 per 100,000) lives were lost due to suicide, which roughly calculates to seven deaths a day that’s caused suicide (Lifeline, 2010) and those who committed suicide seventy five percent were males while the other twenty five percent were females. In Australia between 2009 and 2013 the highest suicide rates among the adolescent male and females were found in the Northern Territory (17.6 per 100,000) then Tasmania (14.0 per 100,000) followed by Western Australia (13.4 per 100,000, Queensland (13.3 per 100,000), South Australia (11.9 per 100,000), Victoria (9.4 per 100,000), Australian Capital Territory (9.1 per 100,000) lastly New South Wales with the lowest suicide rates in Australia (9.1 per 100,000) (Hunter Institute of Mental Health, nd). This essay will look at the common sense view, sociological imagination, social causes and factors that contribute to and eventually lead to youth suicide in Australia, and the functionalist theorist point of view.

Suicide and the reasons why they happen is something not many people talk about. According to American Psychiatric Association, suicide is the third leading cause of death for young people between eleven and eighteen years of age and the suicide rate is highest for those who suffer from depression, substance abuse or other mental disorders. But I would have to argue this, I believe that teen suicide has increased over the years because of bullying, parent divorces and depression.

The methodology used for this research investigation first consisted of posing a question related to the class texts. After, having a conversation with Mrs. Alcala, discussing my topic, I had decided to do my essay on the two-spirit. Doing my research I had a hard time looking for my information and credible sources, so I changed my topic to teen suicide. Starting my essay with the hook, I was trying to write a false story that I ended up revising about 3 times. For the research online about teen suicide I looked for the statistics of how much suicide has increased over the years, shocking to say it has became normal for teen to suicide now days and an article to support my essay. Doing the link for my first CEL paragraph

“Suicide is the third leading cause of death among teenagers, according to the Florida Suicide Prevention Coalition, a grassroots group of advocates formed in 2002( Diaz, Hussain, and Lade para 13).” Teens suicides is important, since that the rates are doubling and families of the suicides teengers get heart broken inside. During this era is when the Internet started to get popular with social media and smartphones too. Social media gives teengers a new way for to get bullied and embarrassed quickly. Also with more advance technology with smartphones to get social media apps and texting teengers get bullied with getting on the computers. The popularity of the internet and phones has negatively affects on teen suicide because of cyberbullying, challenges on social media, and the ability to constant harass someone through texting.