Suicide Among Teens

Suicides among teenagers are continuing to be a major problem. Every Year in the United States thousands of teenagers take away their lives. One in every twelve teenagers attempts to commit suicide annually. Suicide has now unfortunately become the third primary cause of death for fifteen to twenty four year olds. Teenagers may encounter strong feels of stress, confusion, pressure to succeed, and many other internal conflicts while in their childhood years. Some of the simplest things, such as breaking up with a boyfriend or a girlfriend may seem unimportant or small to some people, but for people with a disorder such as depression or bipolar disease it could take their lives.
The numbers have had a huge increase over the years. It’s becoming a major problem all over the world. People are killing themselves at such a young age that they aren’t able to experience their whole lives. We claim that we care about these people and no one is there to help them stop themselves from it. Not many people say,” I want to prevent teen suicide, I am going to donate money to help prevent this issue.’ We say things like this about cancer and AIDS. What about suicide? Ninety percent of teens that have committed suicide have in the least, one diagnosable, active psychiatric illness at the time of their death. Only thirty-three to fifty percent of them had mental illnesses that a doctor was informed of. Fifteen percent were in treatment at the time that they died.

Society has each one of us in our place. Our place often creates cliques. What is normal to one person may not be normal to another. Some people are willing to share their opinions on things, and others aren’t. Some cliques become very well known because the society views them as normal. Adolescences, especially those who have disorders, might feel disappointment or rejection. They do not handle this very well. It many cases these people cannot handle it. They see that everything that goes wrong is their fault