Teen suicide is becoming more and more each year in South America. To kill, in fact, only car accidents and homicides (murders) of people aged 18 to 30, so that the cause of the third major suicide deaths among adolescents and young people in total between 14 and 22 years.
Thinking about suicide, it is common for young people to think about death to some extent. Think teens functions in a manner that allows them to think more deeply – about their existence in the world of middle age, the meaning of life, and other serious questions and suggestions. Contrary to children, young people realize that death is final. You can start, spiritual or philosophical questions such as what happens when people think of dying. May, for some, death and suicide, poetry (one thinks of “Romeo and Juliet, for example). On the other hand, death may seem frightening or a source of concern. For many, death is mysterious and beyond our human experience and understanding.
Thinking about suicide, goes beyond the normal ideas among young people about death and life. Wishing to be dead, thoughts of suicide or feelings of helplessness and despair, how to solve the problems of life are signs of a teenager in May at risk – need help and support. Beyond suicide, in fact, plan or make a suicide attempt is even worse.
What makes some people start thinking about suicide – and worse, to plan or do something with the intention of ending his own life? One of the most important is depression. Suicide attempts are usually made when a person is seriously depressed or upset. An adolescent who is suicidal can see no other way out of problems, communicate, unable to escape the emotional pain, or any other means of their desperate unhappiness.
The relationship between depression and suicide
The majority of suicide attempts and suicide deaths occur in adolescents with depression. Consider these statistics on suicide among adolescents and adolescent depression: about 1% of all adolescent suicide attempters and about 1% of suicide attempts associated with death (approximately 1 shows the results of 10,000 people die ) suicide. But for young people with depressive disorders, rates of thoughts and suicidal behavior are much higher. Most young people with depression think about suicide, and are between 15% and 30% of adolescents with major depression who go on suicide believe a suicide attempt.
Note that most of the time the earlier depression is a mood that passes. Sadness, loneliness, sadness, disappointment and we feel every time that are normal reactions to some of the battles of life. With adequate support, a certain resistance, convinced that there will be a better day, and decent adaptation, most young people can go through depression, which sometimes happens when life starts a curve ball.
But sometimes, depression does not lift after a few hours or days. Instead, it is necessary, and it is probably too much to bear. If someone has a depressed or sad mood is more intense, stock and keeps most of the day, nearly every day for 2 weeks or more, it may be a sign that the person has developed a major depression. Major depression, sometimes called clinical depression, depressed mood is temporary – is the notion of professional mental health, the use of depression, has become a disease requiring treatment. Another form of severe depression is called bipolar disorder (extreme negative mood (major depression) and the extremely high moods, called manic episodes such) contains.
Although children can suffer from depression, adolescents are also more vulnerable to major depression and bipolar disorder. Hormones and sleep cycles, which change dramatically during adolescence, both have an effect on mood and may explain in part why young people (especially girls) are particularly vulnerable to depression. Believe it or not, as many as 20% of adolescents suffer from depression at some point it was serious. The good news is that depression is treatable – most teenagers and young adults with adequate support.
It is not difficult to understand why related serious depression and suicide. Severe depression (major depression and bipolar disorder with both) encompasses a sad mood, a period that does not allow it, and a loss of pleasure in things you once enjoyed. They are also thinking about death, negative thoughts about themselves, feelings of worthlessness, a sense of hopelessness that things could be better, low consumption and changes in sleep or appetite .
Depression also interferes with a person’s point of view, so they exaggerate on their failures and disappointments, to focus on these negative things. Thoughts depression can convince someone that there is nothing to live. The loss of the joy that is part of depression, how can you proof that there seems to be something good about this. The hopelessness of it may seem like it will not bode well for the future; helpless it may seem that there is nothing you can do to change things for the better. And low energy consumption, which is part of depression can report problems (too small to show), manage as much.
In severe depression lifts because a person gets the right therapy or treatment, this distorted thinking is cleared and they qualify, to find energy and hope. But when someone is seriously depressed, suicidal ideation is a real problem. When depressed adolescents, they are often unaware that they are the feelings of despair can be released and the pain and despair can be healed.
What others Puts Teens at risk of suicide?
In addition to depression, then there are other emotional disorders that adolescents may pose a higher risk of suicide – for example, girls and boys with conduct disorder are at high risk. This may be partly because young people with behavioral problems and aggression is more likely to harm than other young people in an aggressive or impulsive, even when they are depressed or acting under pressure. The fact that many youth can be explained by depression and behavioral problems, in part, too. After both major depression and conduct disorder increases the risk for a teen suicide.
Problems of drug abuse among youth are also at risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior. Alcohol and some drugs have depressive effects on the brain. The abuse of these substances can include severe depression, especially among adolescents vulnerable to depression because of their biology, family history or other stressors.
In addition to the change depressive effect of alcohol and drugs to a person’s verdict. They interfere with the ability to assess risk, make the right choices, and consider solutions to problems. Many suicide attempts occur when a teenager under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Adolescents with substance abuse problems often have severe depression or stress of intense life, to further increase their risk.
Stress in life and suicidal behavior
Let’s face it – What a teenager is not easy for everyone. There are many new social, academic and personal stress. And for kids who are fighting for additional problems, life can feel even more difficult. Some youth have been abused physically or sexually abused others have one parent living at home or have lived with many disputes and conflicts at home. Other witnesses of violence in their neighborhood. Many young parents have divorced, and may have other parents with drug or alcohol abuse.
Some young people with concerns about sexuality and relationships, wondering if their feelings and attractions are normal when she is loved and recognized, or if their changing bodies are developing normally. Others are struggling with their body image and eating problems, find it impossible to reach an ideal of perfection, and thus have trouble feeling good about themselves, some young people with learning disabilities or attention problems that make it difficult for her academic success. You may feel disappointed or feel themselves a disappointment for others.
All these things can affect mood in some people feel depressed or turning to alcohol or drugs to a false sense of calming. Without the necessary coping skills to assist or to increase these social tensions, the risk of severe depression and, hence, thoughts and suicidal behavior. Adolescents who had a recent loss or crisis or a family member who committed suicide, may be particularly vulnerable to suicidal thoughts and behavior was itself.
Guns and Suicide Risk
Finally, access to weapons is extremely dangerous for any young person who has any of the other risk factors. Depression, anger, impulsivity, stress of life, drug abuse, feelings of alienation and loneliness – all these factors may place adolescents at high risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior. Availability of weapons, together with one or more of these risk factors is a deadly equation. Many teens could live so that those who are in danger, do not have access to weapons are stored.
Different types of suicidal behavior
Girls attempt suicide more often (about nine times more often) in adolescence, boys, we men are about four times more likely to succeed if they try to kill himself. That’s because teen boys more lethal methods, weapons or using Hanging bed. The girls, who tend to injure or kill, drug overdoses or cut themselves trying to use. Over 60% of suicide deaths occur in adolescents with a gun. But deaths from suicide and contact with the pills and other harmful substances and methods.
Sometimes a depressed person is planning a suicide in advance. But often, suicide attempts were not planned in advance, but occur spontaneously to disturb the feeling of despair in an instant. Sometimes a situation like a divorce, a big fight with a parent, an unwanted pregnancy, with the wounded of abuse or rape by someone else or in any manner that may cause victims outed a teenager feel desperately upset. In such situations, the adolescent fear of humiliation, rejection, social isolation, or dire consequences could they think they can not manage. When a terrible situation feels too overwhelming, a teenager in May feel that there is no way out of bad feelings or the consequences of the situation. Suicide attempts in conditions like this happens because, in despair, some young people – at least for now – no other way, and they act impulsively against itself.
Sometimes teens feel and act, or who are suicidal to die, and sometimes they do not. Sometimes a suicide attempt is a way to deep emotional pain they feel in the hope that someone, the message they are trying to communicate to express yourself.
Even if a teenager who made a suicide attempt may not really want or intend to die, it is impossible to know if an overdose or other adverse action may actually lead to death or illness serious and persistent, plans that never came. Ask someone with a suicide attempt, attention, love or someone to punish them for causing injury is never a good idea. People in general are not really the message, and it often turns on adolescents. It is best to get in another way, what you need and deserve to know people. There are always people value, respect and love you – yes, sometimes it takes time to find them – but it is important to value, respect and love you, too.
Unfortunately, adolescents who attempt suicide more as a response to the problems of trying several times. Although some depressed young people can first suicide attempt at age 13 or 14, attempted suicide are higher among teens. Then, during the age of 17 or 18 years, lowers the rate of suicide attempts among adolescents dramatically. This may be because, with maturity, young people have learned to tolerate mood sad or angry, have learned to get the support they need and deserve, and have developed better coping strategies to face of disappointment or other problems.
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