Top 15 Facts about Teenage Sucide and Depression
Suicide is the second cause of death in teens in Canada, and the 3rd cause of death in the USA. This alarming statistics continue to remain stable over the years and actually is growing in certain areas of the country
Suicides and attempted suicides have increased 300 percent in the last 30 years Experts believe its because of broken families on the rise ,and expectations of children are greater. The pressures on our youth may be a contributing factor to these numbers.
Teen. Youth suicide has tripled since 1970. Again, because of the break down of families, and the pressure on our youth could be the main reasons for these numbers to jump so high, and so dramatic.
90 percent of teen suicides take place in their home. Part of the reasons for this is because of convenience but it may be to send a message to family members as well.
For every suicide there is between 30 and 50 attempted suicide. Sometimes an attempt may be a cry for help, and other times it was just a failed attempt
Most teen suicides occur between 3pm, and Midnight. (70 percent). What’s alarming about this is this is time most likely they could have been saved. Most people are at home and awake during these hours but for reasons unknown the suicide happen during these hours the most often.
Male teens and youth commit suicide 4 times more often then females. This may be because males internalize more, and expectations are usually greater on males then females.
Female teens and youth account for 75 percent of attempted suicides, usually by drug overdoses, The unsuccessful attempts may be because drug overdoses take longer to complete and the victims are rescued before they can be successful. Or they may not have given themselves a lethal dose, so they survive the attempt
About 1/3 of teens who die by suicide has attempted suicide in the past.
Male teens use more violent means to commit suicide, then females. Guns and hanging are 2 popular forms of suicide from male teens
Less then half of teenagers were diagnosed with a depressive disorder, at the time of their suicide, and only 15 percent were actually being treated for depression. So obviously 50 percent of the teens committing suicide suffered from a depressive disorder, and major depression, and it went unnoticed,
Spring and Fall months have the highest rate of teen suicide
An estimated 80 percent of teens mentioned suicidal thoughts to a friend or family member , or gave some warning sign that they were have depression symptoms. Its very important that you listen to teens because they are obviously hurting when they talk about their depression symptoms and we cant take fro granted that its just talk. Most teens talk because something is really bothering them.
For every 2 homicides in the USA, there are 3 suicides
Having a firearm in the house greatly increases the risk of suicide in teen’s mainly male teens. 64 percent of males between the ages of 10 and 24 use a firearm to complete the act of suicide.
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Comment from cappri
Time May 3, 2010 at 2:34 pm
I think the article was great.it gave me alot of information on teenage sucide.