Preventing Teen Suicide

Preventing Teen Suicide

Introduction

Many young people face high level of stress and depression in their daily lives when they interact with different phases and situations. Mainly, when the stress and trauma in an individual's life becomes more than he can handle, a suicide is committed (www.teens.webmd.com, 2009). Thus, it is not surprising that a teen suicide is so common. According to the studies, suicide is the third common reason of death among people.

In addition, this rate is increasingly seen in people between the ages of 10 and 24 (Smith, 2011). The ratio of the suicide commitment is 84% in males and the remaining with the females, with about 4,400 lives lost each year. This is because males choose more violent alternatives as compare to females and they are more likely to be successful. Suicide is often linked to the use of drugs and alcohol. Moreover, the vast majority of people who die by suicide are likely to be suffering from psychiatric problems, depression, some serious life trauma, ignorance in the social or physical life and environmental and situational crisis (www.teensuicide.us, 2005).

Discussion

Prevention Measures

Suicide has become one of the widest spread adverse events of the society, and the worst part is that it is typically seen in the teenagers. Both economically and socially it is an unfavorable and demoting aspect which hurts not only the individual and his family but the economy as a whole. Therefore, government and NGOs are working to remove or at least reduce its ratio from the culture (www.teens.webmd.com, 2009). Since youths spend most of their time in the homes, school and colleges, the responsible and the suicide preventing team coalition felt that reaching out to the teachers and the school staff would be the best alternative and a best step to take initiative ...