Causes Of Teen Suicide

Teen suicides have become more evident in news reports even when there is help readily available. Society tends to think suicide is a sign of mental illness, in fact there is a surprising amount of research that shows that young people commit suicide because of social factors that their parents, teachers, neighbors, and many other leaders control. Researchers need to study more on why both adolescent genders commit suicide and how to stop these acts from happening before the suicide rates accumulate throughout the United States. Suicide is fundamentally about shame, depression and is a person’s need to escape the embodied pain of feeling disconnected from society or inadequate to be amongst others.

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Certain types of weather throw an eerie spell over many suicidal people, influencing them to die. There is a seasonal tide in suicide, and it never varies. The weather which leads to suicide is not what most people would expect. Mostly people believe that suicides are more apt to be committed on a cold, gloomy, depressing day in the wintertime. This estimate is wrong. Suicide does not increase in gloomy weather. Spring, when nature is at its merriest, is the suicide season. It is proven in statistics that more adolescent men kill themselves in the spring than in any other time of the year than women. In the United States, April is the peak month, followed by May and March. The winter months have the least amount of suicides in both genders. December brings the year’s low, followed by the gloomy month of November, and then usually February. The second upsurge in adolescence suicide occurs during September and October. This autumn increase is as regular as the rise in the spring. The reasons for spring and autumn being the suicide seasons for adolescence are because both seasons are times of decisions. In the springtime, everyone changes from their winter clothes to their spring ones. Spring is the time for planning vacation and for spring cleaning. Autumn is the time when winter clothes are brought out, new purchases made and teenagers must get ready to go back to school.

Suicide figures indicate an alarming problem in our society. But it is a problem we can do something about. Everyone can help a relative or friend overcome a suicidal urge. Our shocking national suicide rate can be reduced. Self- destruction can be defeated because the vast majority of suicides and suicidal attempts are caused by emotional states which are temporary and remediable. No one becomes suicidal in a day; there is time in which the suicide attempter can be helped. “Most people in whom a strong suicidal urge is surging flash clear warning signals of their danger to the people around them” (ASPF). If suicide is to be controlled there are several important things which must be done. The first step is to make the public aware of the national suicide problem. The mystery and horror which surrounds suicide much be cleared up. Statistics must be publicized. Suicide must concern the public, not just the specialists, if it is ever to be conquered. The Second thing to be down is to learn to recognize danger signals. The danger signals of a suicide-prone person are clear if one knows what to look for. So many people ignore these signals, however, that it is no wonder that the suicide rate is so high. The danger signals are so simple that anybody can easily