two possible reasons for increase in teenage suicide.?
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1)Suicidal side effects from antidepressants for some reason affect teens more than any other age group.\n\n2)Many teenagers don't have nearly as much control over their lives as they would like, because of parents, school, boring jobs, etc., so they think of killing theirselves as a way to show everyone that they control their own lives, even in death.\n\n3)Many teens in our society today are neglected in their homes (usually because of 2 parents working or a single parent working 2 jobs) and don't have any true friends at school, so they think that committing suicide, whether successful or failed, is the only way they can get people to pay them any attention.\n\n4)Lastly, hormones fluctuate more drastically in teens than in any other age group, which combined with bad home life and/or certain antidepressants, can force some teens to make irrational and abnormal decisions, including suicide.
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I think there are more than two factors....and you answered your own question.
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Statisics on what?  Drug use? Pregnancy? Deaths? Public school v. Private school?  Be more specific\n\nSuicide: Youth\nThe overall rate of suicide among youth has declined slowly since 1992 (Lubell, Swahn, Crosby, and Kegler 2004). However, rates remain unacceptably high. Adolescents and young adults often experience stress, confusion, and depression from situations occurring in their families, schools, and communities. Such feelings can overwhelm young \npeople and lead them to consider suicide as a “solution.” Few schools and communities have suicide prevention plans that include screening, referral, and crisis intervention programs for youth.\n\nSuicide is the third leading cause of death among young people ages 15 to 24. In 2001, 3,971 suicides were reported in this group (Anderson and Smith 2003). \nOf the total number of suicides among ages 15 to 24 in 2001, 86% (n=3,409) were male and 14% (n=562) were female (Anderson and Smith 2003). \nAmerican Indian and Alaskan Natives have the highest rate of suicide in the 15 to 24 age group (CDC 2004). \nIn 2001, firearms were used in 54% of youth suicides (Anderson and Smith 2003). \n\nSex: Teen Sex and Pregnancy\n\n\nRevised 9/1999\n\nSEXUAL ACTIVITY\n• Most very young teens have not had intercourse: 8 in 10 girls and 7 in 10 boys are sexually inexperienced at age 15. 1\n\n• The likelihood of teenagers' having intercourse increases steadily with age; however, about 1 in 5 young people do not have intercourse while teenagers.2 \n\n• Most young people begin having sex in their mid-to-late teens, about 8 years before they marry; more than half of 17-year-olds have had intercourse.3\n\n• While 93% of teenage women report that their first intercourse was voluntary, one-quarter of these young women report that it was unwanted.4 \n\n• The younger women are when they first have intercourse, the more likely they are to have had unwanted or nonvoluntary first sex--7 in 10 of those who had sex before age 13, for example.5 \n\n• Nearly two-thirds (64%) of sexually active 15-17-year-old women have partners who are within two years of their age; 29% have sexual partners who are 3-5 years older, and 7% have partners who are six or more years older.6 \n\n• Most sexually active young men have female partners close to their age: 76% of the partners of 19-year-old men are either 17 (33%) or 18 (43%); 13% are 16, and 11% are aged 13-15.7\n\n\n\nStart with that and see if that's what you need. :)
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God, no. Too many people don't realise how many OTHER people they affect. When people die of NATURAL causes, they leave huge voids in their loved ones' lives. Suicide is a terrible idea, especially if you're just depressed and not SICK physically.
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What’s Driving Teens to Abuse Prescription Drugs?\n\nTeens and substance abuse experts say that there are many different reasons for the rise in prescription drug mis-use and abuse by young people. Teens point to personal or family-related stress as a major reason why they mis-use or abuse prescription drugs. \nhttp://www.freevibe.com/Drug_Facts/prescription_whatsdriving.asp\nhttp://www.teens.drugabuse.gov/stories/story_xtc1.asp\nhttp://www.teens.drugabuse.gov/stories/story_mj1.asp\nhttp://www.drugfree.org/Teen/teen_4.html\nTeens turn to Internet for prescription drugs\n94 percent of Web sites don't require a doctor's note, study finds\nhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15240265/\nhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5061674
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i've answered a similar question to this before and my answer is still the same...if we took the time to listen to people in this day and age instead of being obsessed with our own lives and happenings then maybe there wouldnt be the need to post as many suicide questions or as many suicidal people out there. The human race as a whole is just becoming selfish.
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How weird your question seems to me, because i have mental illness myself, and I was born 20 years ago.\n\nFrom my own experience in the world of mental illness with people who have had it or treated people who have had it for longer than I have, I know that there are more mentally ill people in the world today, and the number continues to increase.\n\nThere are many reasons why this is happening, mainly because of the lowering of the value and dignity of every human life.\n\nPeople with mental illness may get the medical treatment they need, but if they have no friends or family to treat them with respect and compassion and give the time and energy needed to make those people better, those people will have their mental illness longer than people 20 years ago did.\n\nThe most basic social connections that up until recently supported virtually all human beings have disintegrated, and along with those connections, the health and well-being of a large number of human beings, who, exposed to the harshness of everyday life without anyone to tell they matter, slowly fall apart and lose control of their lives, hence the ensuing mental illness.\n\nThis is only the beginning of the explanation for why the number of people with mental illness is increasing, but the main conclusion from it is that the cause is from the gradual destruction of basic social conditions that sustain our society, not from biological or genetic conditions like the pharmaceutical companies would like you to think.
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There are a plethora of contributory factors that have led to the increase of violence among the youth in our society. Some of the most oft mentioned cases are associated with the increase in the violent content of movies, television, music, video games, etc. It is averred that these vehicles of entertainment have a desensitizing effect upon the impressionable minds of the youth. Children observe the indiscriminate violence portrayed in a fictional sense, and have difficulty distinguishing the actual effects of its application in reality.\n\nUndoubtedly, this desensitization process plays a role in the increase of violence. However, I believe we are just scratching the surface when we assert that this is the root cause of violence among the youth. In fact, we would do a disservice to our youth if we were to accept this assertion as the primary cause. I think the root cause lies much deeper.\n\nChildren have been witnessing violence in a fictional sense for decades....  To See  more click on link  below
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because it occurs more in children
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Hello Vinod, I hope I am not misreading your question, but I wonder if you are asking this because you are considering ending your life. I was suicidal when I was a teenager, but the peace I have found through a relationship with Jesus Christ has given me not only hope but a reason to live. Please check out the links below for a little bit about my life and for toll-free numbers you can call if you are in the United States and can talk to people who would like to help you. If I can help in any way, please feel free to e-mail me at chad@jesusfreak.com. Have a good day.
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Depression,being lonely,or something much worse!! It is hard for teens not to have friends,they have no one to turn to for support or comfort!! There parents aren't the same as a friend that they can tell anything to!!
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The grammar and spelling of this question make is hard to understand you. I thnk you are either asking or staing that there is an increase in aircraft CRASHES, not crushes, this year. (Don't know why this is in the health & beauty section!)\nThe statistics show that there is no increase, so I am not sure why you are asking.....
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Suicide or mass murdering spree.
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I admit i did last year,I'm 13, and it really does help at the time.  but then there is the problem of wearing short sleeved shirt and having your parents find out, so it actually creates more!I advise your to talk to her or a shrink with her.  As much as i didn't want to admit it, i needed the help of a professional badly.  I'm glad i had someone to talk to so i never ended up like that again.  the suicidal deaths of teenagers in numbers are increasing, so as friends and family members of loved ones that are going thorough that same thing, it is our challenge to help.  i recommend a shrink that is a girl, specifically a girl because it was awkward to talk to a strange shrink that was of the opposite sex.i think it is important to hepl her while she is still young! good luck...you'll need it!!!
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Yes indeed, I think suicide is a very selfish thing to do. People will be very angry at first, than they go into a depression and than finally recovery. Alot of times though denial and guilt comes first because you cant believe it has happened and than you feel guilty because you think you could have some how prevented it.
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Death rates would increase especially 15-40 year olds (highest number of people starting meth use now are in this age group)\n\nTraffic accidents & fatalities will increase\n\nLarger number of abandoned children or children forcibly taken from families and put in foster care (because most meth users are in child bearing age)\n\nHealthcare costs will rise - including dental (meth users destroy their teeth)\n\nMany others - these are just my initial guesses
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yes one of the most common reasons for commiting suicide