The Problem Of Teen Suicide

The rate of suicide, the act or an instance of taking one's own life voluntarily and intentionally, increases each year. “More adolescents die each year from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease, combined” (Preventing Teen Suicide, 2016, p.2). These facts show suicide is a serious problem among teens. Last year, teen suicide became the second leading cause of death in the United States confirming the significant increase in teen suicides.

Over 1,000 people die from suicide each year in Illinois each year, and most of these people are teens, ranging from fifteen to nineteen years old. This sounds

Can you remember all the thoughts as an adolescent when you were dealing with puberty, school, and peer pressure? It’s harder than it seems because during that stage, adolescents deal with an endless amount of stress from hormonal changes and trying to be “cool” or fit in with the crowd. The buildup of psychological, environmental, and social factors can lead to mental illnesses, which may cause suicidal distress in countless adolescents. Currently, suicide is the third-leading cause of death for young people between the ages of 15 to 24 (Gould 6). But no matter what age group or circumstance, suicide is a growing health concern that needs whole-hearted attention and preventative matters.

Teenage suicide is a growing problem. They may struggle with self-esteem issues and self doubt. Depression is a major factor in teenage suicide.

Teen suicide is caused from a lot of things. Some bad and some are really bad. It can cause teen suicide because of the stuff they have going like in their lives. Sometimes their parents don’t like them or talk bad about them. Also when people bully them they say they want to die or that they don’t want to live no more.Other ways that might cause teen suicide is when they take drugs or drink alcohol they get dizzy and they might jump off a cliff or drowned

In America today, majority of schools have a plethora of diversity. Students in schools all have different cultures, talents, and views that make them unique from one another. Schools feel full of culture due to diversity. A student 's voice helps a school become a wonderful and lively place to learn. However, what happens when a student silences their voice for ever by killing themselves?

Teen suicide is a drastic public health concern and immediate action is needed to prevent suicide from occurring more frequenting in youth. Research shows that suicide is the third leading cause of death among high school students (Bauman, Toomey, Walker, 2013). Additionally, Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, stated that 13. 8% of the students were seriously considering suicide and 6.3% have attempted suicide in the last 12 months before the survey was given (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009). There is a gap understanding the risk of teen suicide, since many of the research available relates to adults. The risk of teen suicides is increasing dramatically by 300% since 1950s (Miller & Eckert, 2009). School professionals should be able to identify suicidal students, understand the role that the school plays in preventing suicide, and the cultural variables found in youth suicide.

Youth Suicide Statistics shows that, young people between ages 10-24, is the second-leading cause of death, and more teenagers and young adults die from suicide than from the following combined; birth defects, cancer, heart disease, chronic lung disease, AIDS, influenza, stroke, and pneumonia. Does these statistics sadden you? Let’s change them and let’s do so quickly, why? Because there’s an average of over 3,470 attempts in the USA daily by our young people grades

Teen suicide rates in the United States doubled between 1960s and 1990s. There is no clear explanation on this trend even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention attributes this to increased reporting. There has been

One of the leading mental disabilities and causes of suicide in teenagers in the United States is depression, yet only 30 percent of depressed teens are being treated for it. Every 100 minutes a teen takes their own life and this statistic will only increase if the depression treatment rate does not drastically improve. While most people agree that depression is a serious issue affecting teenagers, teenagers that are dealing with depression are not being correctly identified and they do not have sufficient access to effective treatment.

Depression, anxiety, and suicide are serious problems in high schools across the nation. Unfortunately, people and the news do not pay as much attention to teen suicide in comparison to large mass child mortalities such as school shootings. The rate of teenage suicide has tripled in the past three years; each week twenty-eight teens kill themselves in America. Nearly one in seven teens have said they have had suicidal thoughts or tendencies and one in fourteen admit to actually attempting suicide.

Youth and young adult suicide is a major problem facing the United States and many other countries around the world today. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data show that suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death in youth ages 10-24. About 1 in 6 youth in 9th to 12th-grade report seriously considering suicide and while 1 in 12 report having attempted suicide (CDC 2014). There are multiple studies on youth and young adult suicides, what the contributing factors for youth and young adult suicides may be, who the youth and young adults were most likely to turn to, and what advice and services were most beneficial in the youth and young adults’ decision to not complete suicide.

I have lost friends and family to suicide and have never gotten a reason why it happened. In this paper I will define suicide, explain suicidal behaviors that are among teenagers and the ways that it can be prevented. Family can play an important role in preventing suicide and they can also play a role of provoking suicide. In order to attain this goal of preventing suicide families should be informed of the signs of suicide and how to prevent it. Teen suicide is a serious problem. According to American Psychological Association, teen suicide is the second leading cause of death for young people ages 15-24. Teen suicide is when a child ends their own life. It can be impulsive or planned out. Suicide attempts doesn't always lead to death it can be their way of calling out for help. When teens who talk or write about killing them selves are automatically being dismissed as overly dramatic and seeking attention. A threat of suicide should never be dismissed or over looked, even from a kid who cries "wolf!" Some teens don't really mean that they're going to attempt suicide, but it's a chance parents shouldn't take lightly.

The graph shows suicide in teens has drastically increased from its low in 2006 at 1,240 to its high in 2014 at 1668. There are many reasons for this incline one of the most prominent being the pressure to get good grades. Although many teens have good grades they still fret over whether or not

Teen suicide is a BIG problem. “Adolescent suicide continues to be a major cause of death of our youth. The National Center for Health Statistics (1996) has found suicide to be the 3rd leading cause of death for 15-24 year olds, behind only accidents and homicide and the tenth leading cause of death in children under the age of fifteen (Ellis & Lane, qtd in “Do Increasing Adolescent”. As stated by these facts, even though they are out of date, suicide is on the rise. Suicide is an important topic in my life; I lost a great uncle to suicide when I was little. He had COPD and didn’t want to go through the suffering that comes with that particular disease. It was tragic when my 80 year old great uncle committed suicide but it seems more tragic when teens at the beginning of their life commit suicide.