Warrior: The Correlation Between Depression And Teen Suicide

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 suicide is handled in today’s society. In order to alleviate the devastating consequences of teenage suicide, it is important to get at the root of what causes it all: mental illness. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Protection (2013), mental illness is the imbalance of thinking, state of mind, and mood. Approximately 90% of all suicides are committed by people with mental illnesses (NAMI, n.d.). This shows that there is a correlation between mental illness and suicide. If mental illnesses are not treated, deadly consequences could occur. It would make sense that if there is a correlation between mental illness and suicide across all ages, the same should be thought for adolescents. 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). If mental illnesses are not found and treated in teenagers, some of them may pay the ultimate price.

Over the past few years’ teenage depression has drastically increased due to multiple factors such as peer pressure and bullying. According to Linda Lamb’s article Young People Can Suffer From Depression, Too,” The suicide rate among teenagers [today] is about 10 per 100,000”. A handout from the Health and Human Services Department and National Institute of Mental Health stated,” in the last 25 years, the rate of suicide among teenagers and young adults has increased dramatically.” The awareness of teenage depression has increased and the public are taking steps to reduce it, however schools and parents can do more to prevent it such as a day of awareness or even so much as considering the possibility that a teen is

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.

Once a suicide happens and the stigma has attached people now seem to have a defense systems that seems to go up almost immediately as they hear about the death. People want to and do defend the person as to why they committed this selfish action of self inflected death. They get made if and when you talk about it, they have a million and one reasons why it happened and they seem to want to blame everybody in the world or connected to this act.

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Teen suicides have been on the rise since the 1970’s, making it the second leading cause of death among the youth within the U.S. Suicide is the act of taking one’s own life, intentionally. All of my sources have great information and some sort of stance in spite of all of the chaos with this topic. These authors include Emma Brown, Dahr Jamail, Sonia Nazario, Ophelia D. Johnson, Sara-Ellen Amster, Ames Alexander, Michele Ingrassia & John McCormick, Ruth Padawer, Colleen Diskin, Joanne Fox, Gregg Zoroya, Kathleen Megan, and Michael E. Young. Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S and their are many factors that play a role in the process leading up to a suicide, including bullying, traumatic experiences, and mental illnesses.

According to the online article “Teen Depression and Anxiety: Why the Kids Are Not Alright” (2016), about 2 million teeangers have been reported experiencing depression and about 30% of those teens are girls. Okay, now imagine this, a girl becomes depressed and begins cutting herself, later to transition to suicide all because of stereotypes. Why would the girl commit suicide? Women in the past, have had an inferior role and at the cause of that people now begin assuming their capabilities and that's where discrimination begins. During the years, stereotypes have been increasing in society all over the world. The phrase “stereotype threats” simply explains how people threatened by a negative stereotype, take it as part of their life and make them come true. One of the most common stereotypes is targeted towards women.

nfluential forces found within the dominant society are strongly influential in the development of abnormal disorders and functioning, including abnormal disorders, that ultimately affect individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is vital that adequate and appropriate means of support are readily available, in efforts to ease, treat, and cease this disorder. These factors most commonly include an individual’s network and interactions with family and friends, the media in which they are exposed to on a regular basis, and other environmental and situational factors. This includes the residing culture’s institutions and its widely accepted beliefs and values. Since depression is so common and affects a large range of people from all

In 2014, 1,668 teenagers committed suicide in the United States. Each year the number of suicides increases. Being bullied, depression, and family drama are some causes of teenage suicide. Teenagers who commit suicide are usually impulsive. Impulsiveness is when a person acts without thinking through a plan or its consequences. Teenage suicide is a big problem in the United States, but luckily there are ways to prevent it.

Suddenly you start noticing that Suzy, the nicest most brilliant girl in your junior class starts distancing herself. You start noticing that Suzy doesn’t want to hang out anymore, she doesn't want to go out to parties anymore, she doesn’t want to go out to the usual hang out spot after school, and she’s growing apart from everybody. Suzy starts eating alone in the cafeteria and nobody really sees her around school anymore. Suddenly Suzy transfers schools because she hasn’t been doing too well here and you realize that she’s been sick. Suzy hasn’t been physically sick; she’s been depressed. Suzy’s been quiet, alone, depressed and nobody noticed.

There has been an unfortunate increase in the news about teenagers killing themselves as a result of being bullied. With the increase of social media bullying is now easier and faster to do. Even if someone doesn’t live in the same area as their bully they can still be bullied and taunted. One of the reasons why teenage suicide has gone up with the increase of social media use is because bullying is not as hard to track because someone can delete their harmful comments like they never happened. Instead of posting on a public forum like their “wall” a bully can send them a private message and later delete it when questioned about it.

“People use the word ‘depression’ if they can’t find their keys, or if they've had a fight with their mother or father, or if they’ve had an argument with their boyfriend or girlfriend, if they didn’t make the school team or didn’t do well on an exam,” says adolescent psychiatry expert Dr. Stan Kutcher. “When we use the word ‘depression’ for every negative emotional state, the word loses its meaning.” If people are overusing the term “depression” to describe normal, everyday sadness, it takes away from those who actually suffer from this disease. As a person who has both a grandmother, a cousin, and multiple friends who suffer from depression, I feel as though this term is offensive. The people in my life take regularly prescribed medications from their doctors or see therapists on a weekly basis to help them deal with their issues that they cannot normally deal with on their own as most people can. When they are suffering from depression, they cannot bring themselves out of their sadness and feel better. People who use the term depression to feel connected and like they belong in Tumblr’s world of dark poetry and romantic art do not truly understand what it is like to feel depressed, and although they may need help, social media is not the way to do

A new study suggested that extended use of electronic devices, such as laptops, smartphones, and tablets may cause symptoms of depression in teens. According to the researchers from the San Diego State University and Florida State University that people, particularly teens, who spend more time in social media are more vulnerable to develop depression.

These lyrics clearly show that there is an unclear sense of self. In the video many people are shown one after another, mayber to represent different walks of life all having this same problem. Then he says he's only human after all, so not to put the blame on him.