Teen Suicide

The popular Netflix series "13 Reasons Why" recorded a suicide in a third year high school student. The picture she left was returned to 13 other people for her role in suicide.

In the release of the second season of 2018, teenagers and parents can ask family doctors about guidance on watching the show and about how to prevent suicide among teenagers in their families and communities I can do it.

AAFP's patient education website, familydoctor.org, has resources for patients and parents.

The purpose of this article is to explain the causes of adolescent suicide. This article contains statistics about suicide survivors and some background information. This report also discusses some warning signs of juvenile suicide. It is very important to consider suicide seriously. Teenagers who have lived in such a short period of time choose to die, but those who can not overcome depression sometimes do this seems to be wrong. Suicide in adolescence is the third most common cause of death among 15 to 24 years of age, it is the fourth most frequent cause of death among 10 to 14 years old, and it seems to be increasing. Only accidental death and murder will occur. Some experts believe that many "coincidence" deaths are actually suicide.

Most suicide attempts and suicides occur in adolescents with depression. Consider these statistics about teen suicide and adolescent depression. Approximately 1% of adolescents attempt suicide, about 1% suicide attempts lead to death (that is, one in 10,000 people die from suicide). However, in young people with depression, the incidence of suicidal thinking and behavior is much higher. Most of depressed teenagers consider suicide and 15% to 30% of severe depressed teenagers believe suicide will continue suicide.

Since 2011, which is the first year in which adolescence suicide rate is higher than adolescence homicide rate, adolescent depression and suicide rates are rising rapidly. Researchers discovered that cell phones have this connection, and teenagers spend more than three hours a day on devices with a 35% risk of suicide. "There is no exception," Twenger wrote. "All screen activities are related to less happiness, and all non-screen activities are related to more happiness." Some of them may be due to screen time opportunity cost. We know that this makes us happy. As Twenty wrote, these devices have changed the meaning of adolescence. For example, in the baby-boomer generation and the X generation, 85% of people participate in the reservation. In the case of iGen, it is only 56%. The high school graduates in 2015 are actually fewer than the 8th grade students in 2009.