In the United States, suicide is currently the eighth leading cause of death for Americans, and for young adults between aged 15 to 24, suicides is the third leading cause of death. This is outrageously startling considering that suicide is one of the most preventable forms of death. There are a number of beliefs about the subject of suicide. When someone is contemplating suicide, they show warning signs of being suicidal or having suicidal thoughts. People think that there is no reason for a person to be suicidal, when there are a number of things that can cause someone to be suicidal, one of the largest reasons proven is mental illness. Some other causes of suicide among teenagers include bullying, anxiety, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, and physical and sexual abuse. Researchers also found that one third of reasons for suicide or depression is family problems, sexual orientation is one of the largest causes of depression, teenagers think that they are odd or weird for liking the same sex and most kids see homosexuals as disgusting or sinners and they attack them for it (Worshop, 371). Researchers see that depression is accompanies by abnormalities with the brains neuro transmitting system, composed with chemical compounds called amines. An imbalance can cause a mix up with everything, causing dopamine, norephrine, and serotonin, possibly causing symptoms of depression (380). The main kind of depression is clinical depression, where they may feel sad almost all the time, for at least two weeks
Bullying is becoming one of the main reasons for teenage suicide,