Risky Business Final Essay

Did you know that suicide is the third leading cause of death among children, teens and young adults?  Every year almost 125,000 children are brought to emergency rooms to receive treatment for injuries inflicted while attempting suicide. Girls think about and attempt suicide about twice as often as boys, and tend to attempt suicide by overdosing on drugs or cutting themselves. Yet boys die by suicide about four times as often girls, perhaps because they tend to use more lethal methods, such as firearms, hanging, or jumping from heights. The rates of teen suicide increases by the minute due to many issues such as family related issues, mood disorders and even bullying; which needs to be taken into consideration without delay.

There are a variety of reasons as to why teens feel need to commit or attempt suicide. According to Dr. Robert Wallace from creators.com, family factors are the most commonly cited cause; whether there had been a death, or divorce, or even financial problems, it slowly but surely makes a teens life turn a 180 within a matter of time. Being a teenager to have to deal with those problems in life is difficult to cope with; yet no teen should feel the need of having to resort to suicide. They feel as if dying is the only way of coping with their issue instead of dealing with it while being alive. Having a family related issue that leaves you in the need of committing suicide branches out from not just being only you, but to others who have the same problem and think that they should consider it as well.

Mood disorders is just another term for being bipolar and not only is it a symptom leading to depression, but it’s also a risk factor leading teens into attempting suicide. Mood disorders are reported to be the most common psychiatric illnesses in children and adolescents who attempt or commit suicide. Us teens may say that being bipolar is a normal disorder any teen will come across, but it’s not, it’s a condition that hints out to others that surround the teen to show that they are dealing with a certain crisis. It’s a silent universal sign from them that something is wrong and needed to be said in words rather than kept in their mind. Knowing that mood disorders is a common sign within teens who consider suicide, it shows that people everywhere need to take serious note of the symptom and contribute into preventing those who aren’t or are affected.

Being bullied doesn’t just give a student a hard time in focusing in school or at home, but majorly affects their intuition on living. Back in September, 12 year-old Rebecca Sedwick committed suicide due to bullying; both verbal-bullying and cyber-bullying. Being the personal punching bag on a bully brings out insecurities in one that can slowly be less tolerable than before; which what probably happened to Sedwick. Bullying is one of the vilest thing a person could do to one, and not caring about their life sentence; whether considering suicide or not; just brings it to an all-time low. Knowing that bullying causes some teens death, or if not more, doesn’t matter, what matters is the fact that their willing to put their life at risk without even completing at least 25% of their life span to explore other options that the world had to offer; only because they cut themselves short by someone who hadn’t given them an ounce of care to feel empathetic because their too pathetic themselves to even care.

Teen suicide is an issue that needs to be taken underway without delay so we can stop the increasing population if it. It’s the third leading cause of death among young adults, resulting in 4,400 deaths each year. And if it’s just the third leading cause, what is it going to take for us to make a change? Wait until it reaches the top of the scale and moving to the first leading cause? There are different ways to approach the issue to slowly solve it, whether it’s to build and spread more common hotlines within the nation, or setting up multiple classes within a state for teens to push themselves or be pushed to join and get help. But it’s up to us as bystanders to take an action and make the first move. That way the common causes, family factors, mood disorders, and bullying, would be dead to the world. And the only way to close off the issue is to take it one step at a time slowly but surely to lessen the suicides each year.