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Teen Suicide

Today’s youth seems to have the most experience with changing and dealing with different emotions than any other age group. When adolescents come across new emotions that may be different than those they may be familiar with they find themselves unable to react to these new emotions since they are new and something they have never experienced before. These new feelings such as heartbreak, conforming, disapproval, isolation and the lack of coping skills for them can result in thoughts of suicidal attempts and oftentimes suicidal completions. If we as a society can become educated on the dangers and warning signs of suicidal teens then it would become easier to decrease the negative statistics that are making teen suicide the #3 leading cause in teenage death in the country. New emotions and change contribute to the average teenage life, and inadequate means of coping can leads to destruction of one’s self.
The list of causes for teen suicide can go on and on, but the list of things that people actually know about teen suicide isn’t quite as long. It seems as though people are aware of what teen suicide is and the most common causes of it such as stress and depression, but there is really more to it than just those two factors. Society can create stress by putting perfect images everywhere especially in the media. The media is the major outlet for which people obtain their information so when teenagers turn on the television or read a magazine they are constantly bombarded with what they should look like and how they should be. Society’s standards can turn out to be a little much especially when the average teenager may not look like a cover model or portray the perfect body image. These things come into context when teenagers begin to evaluate themselves based off of these standards and see that they may not fit these images and begin to feel down and depressed.
Depression and other forms of mental illness can be a cause of teenage suicide and violent images...