Committing suicide should not be the answer to solving life's harsh problems as a
teenager. Although you may be fundamentally unstable, there are many other ways to reduce
stress or to help depression. Clinically depressed adolescents are five times more likely to attempt
suicide that their non-depressed peers, according to a 15-year study that tracked 73 percent
depressed adolescents and compared them with peers who were not clinically depressed. Being
depressed is not a reasonable excuse to want to kill yourself. But on the other hand, a person with
an extreme amount of so-called "problems" would think otherwise.
If a teenager has access to a gun and/or is depressed of course the thought of shooting
themselves in the head will run through their mind. Teenagers feel the need to take risks and they
constantly see violence on television. A lot of the times, parents seem to have a strong effect on a
teenagers suicidal thoughts. The pressure to get grades and the breakdown of a traditional family
contribute to suicide. But will killing yourself be the answer. In the past few decades, suicide rates
among 10-14 year olds have nearly doubled say federal statisticians. Also for every one teenager
who commits suicide, 100 more will try and every year, one in 13 high school students attempts
suicide, a 1997 funded Youth Risk Behavior survey found. This basically says that at least one
student per classroom will attempt to kill themselves for thoughtless reasons.
Never does a teenager take into account that death is final, they see suicide as an end of
their problems rather than existence. There are many other alternatives to suicide if you really
have that many problems. You could just as easily pick up a phone and get help as you could pick
up a gun and shoot yourself. It's just a matter of thinking through the situation rather that acting on
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