Reasons for Adolescent Suicide Attempts

The present text reports situations when an adolescent is at risk of suicide. Some of these situations are parts of depression, social pressure, drug abuse, and family difficulties. All of these factors make an adolescent feel overwhelmed and confused. There are many events that an adolescent goes through before taking their lives. Finding rates of suicide vary in males and females because the males use more fatal methods than females. What are the feelings that make adolescents take their own life? All the information can be useful to help someone with the problem because it describes how help a person without making the problem worse. There are also some myths that people believe that are not helping to prevent a suicide. Are there some signs to identify suicidal adolescents? This research helps to understand why some teenagers should want to take their lives and what can be done to prevent it? What programs are available to deter them making this negative choice?

Adolescent Suicide

Adolescent suicide rates are increasing in our society. "Suicide is the third- leading cause of death for 15 to 24 year olds", according to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention "after accidents and homicides" (as cited in Feldman, 2012, p.364). This information is unpleasant to know because there is something wrong that make it happen.

There are many factors involved in a suicide. Nock has noted that "adolescence is the time of sexual identity and relationships and a need for independence that often conflicts with the rules and expectations set by others"(as cited in New, 2012, para.8). An adolescent could feel pressure from their parents, teachers, and friends so that adolescent may deal with a big obstacle.

Factors that Place Adoles...

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...o this because that is an indication that something is wrong with the adolescent.

Suicides are unplanned: people always try to find alternatives to their problems and draw attention of others before suicide.

A person, who has previous suicide attempt, will not try again: some people try several times until they commit the suicide.

Only a certain type of people kills themselves: Suicide does not respect race class, or gender.

If an adolescent has any signs of depression, look for help in hospital or doctor who could make refer to a specialist or program. Frankel and Kranz (1994) have declared "when a person who has been depressed for long time seems to cheer up, that is often a bad sign"(p.22). Adolescent commit suicide because our attention is missing in their life. Nobody notices signs of an adolescent who is depressed because people are ill informed.