Pedagogy

Do you know that suicide is presently a tragedy that has often been causing death in the United States of America amongst other nations Suicide is said to be the third leading cause of death among teenagers in America currently. This is a compelling problem with the youth of the United States today. In addition, more teenagers are dying out of suicide than any other disease in some countries. Teenagers commit suicide because of family troubles, failures in school, lack of supportive network amongst other reasons which makes them doubt their self-worth, often feel unwanted, redundant, and misunderstood therefore lacking a reason to continue living.
         
Depression can be referred to as serious illness that affects ones thoughts, feelings, behaviors and the overall health. Depression can affect anybody, teenagers included. When teenagers get depressed, they should be helped with treatment. Depression is the most common cause of suicide amongst teenagers.  However, it is not the only cause of suicide. In the past three decades, suicide has increased in a very high late. When depression has negative effects on teens relationships and ability to act normal while at home, school or even when playing, there is need to seek treatment from professionals like counselors.
       
There are several facts about suicide amongst teenagers that include the following One, every year almost 5,000 young people die by committing suicide. Secondly, suicide amongst teenagers has totally increased three times compared to how it was in 1970. Moreover, 90 of teenagers dying of suicide are normally diagnosed of mental illnesses, with depression being the most common. In 1996, suicide is said to have been the fourth biggest killer of persons between ages ten and fourteen and it is the third biggest killer of those aged between fifteen and twenty four years.

How teens behave when they want to commit suicide
When one is dealing with a teenager, it is important to always learn and know them very well especially when they look depressed. When a teenager is thinking about suicide, they will talk about suicide or death in general, going away, feeling hopeless or guilty, they will get away from friends or family, loose the desire to take part in favorite things or activities, have trouble concentrating or thinking right, lose appetite, stay awake during the night, engage in self destructive behaviors like taking alcohol among other things.

Why could teenagers commit suicide
According to the studies done, suicide attempts among teenagers are based on long-term problems triggered by specific events. Many times, teenagers consider temporary situations or problems disturbing them as permanent and that is why they get depressed to the extent of some committing suicide. Feelings of anger and resentments combined with blown up guilt can lead to reckless self destructive acts. Teenagers, kill themselves so as to forget the things they are going through.
             
Teenagers get depressed when there are conflicts in the family or parents have divorced. Parents may decide to divide children between themselves, some ending up with the father while others the mother. Some fathers may remarry and so the children end up experiencing discrimination and gain low self esteem because of being abused by step-mothers or step-siblings. In addition, teenagers get depressed when there are financial crisis at home and they cannot be given what they want. They also get depressed when people they love die, when they are living a messed up live at home, and when they break up with a boyfriend or girl friend.

Why suicide happen among teenagers
There are several factors that are associated with suicide. One of them is psychological disorder particularly depression, alcohol and drug use as well as bipolar disorder. Secondly, the feeling of distress, irritability or agitation and feeling of hopelessness and worthlessness that is often followed by depression. This feeling mostly happens to teenagers who have experienced repeated failures at school, those weighed down by violence at home or those who have been shunned away from their peers. In addition, those who have tried earlier to commit suicide are always followed by the feeling of wanting to do the same again. They always think of committing suicide when faced with issues. Even when they are surrounded by people who show them concern like family members or even friends, they still feel they want to die simply because they think that they are not loved or understood the way they would have wanted.
       
Also, in cases where there has been history of depression or even suicide, the generations following are usually followed by the same issue. Some commit suicide or even get more depressed. This is because depressive illnesses may have genetic components that perhaps may end up affecting the teens thus exposing them to major depression. Another cause of suicide for teens is physical or sexual abuse. Some teens experience physical abuse, especially the orphans who were not lucky to be brought up by the best people, and they end up being abused through hard labor, abusive language among other bad things. They suffer low self esteem and finally commit suicide.
     
Lack of supportive network, poor relationship with the parent, sisters, brothers or even peers and feelings of social isolation also cause suicide. One of the study shows that 90 of suicide amongst teenagers happens as a result of family members failing to understand teenagers. For example, when teens try to express their feelings of unhappiness or failures to parents, more often than not parents ignore them. They take no notice of their point of view. Some families normally use guilt as a means of controlling the teens behaviors. They make it difficult for the teens to express themselves in an honest and direct manner. They criticize them instead of criticizing the behavior and therefore the teens end up feeling that they are not loved, being unsure of them, lacking confidence and finally committing suicide.
       
In some cases, teens commit suicide when families divorce. They find it stressful growing up in a divorced family. This is because step-parents and step-siblings hardly show them love but instead make life hard for them. They end up building self-doubts and so suicide becomes the only option for them. There is case of a seventeen years old boy by the name Charles who committed suicide two months after his parents divorced. It is said that he began withdrawing slowly from the society until finally he decided to kill himself through suicide.
       
Sometimes teens also experience hostility in school or in the community they live in. Most of these events cause depression and what happens next is that the teens now fail to find the worth of living. Eventually, they contemplate of taking their lives through suicide if they do not find some one to help them.  It is said that each year 400,000 teenagers attempt suicide and more than half of that number actually die.

Conclusion
It is sad that death through suicide comes about because of depression, which is on increase amongst teenagers day by day. Depression being one of the leading causes of suicide among teenagers should be dealt with as soon as it is noticed. The society, parents and friends should help teenagers to cope with life by listening to them and correcting them in a loving manner so that they can load off their fears, worries and desperations.