Critical Analysis: Analysis Of Suicide In Adolescent Teens

Suicide is a dominant cause of death among teenagers and young adults. The rate of suicides and suicide attempts increases from time to time. For some, suicide is the permanent solution to a temporary problem and most pressing public health issues across the world. Suicides case is so often these days even becoming a trend and we are not even flinch anymore. The depression and substances abuse for teenagers currently become issues that lead to suicide cases among teenagers.

Sociological Paradigms A clear understanding of Donna Gaines’ Teenage Wasteland is important for the clarification of the choice of sociological paradigm in this regard. The issues and questions raised by Gaines (1990) are sensitive issues that are of great reality, even nowadays. In most cases, different reasons are raised based on how kids commit suicides, especially when they are frustrated and do not have whom to interact with to explain their pains, their wants, and their desires.

The statistics about teenage runaways, alcoholism, drug problems, pregnancy, eating disorders, and suicide are startling. Every year, thousands of people succeed in taking their lives and even more have attempted suicide at some point in their lives. Although we have reached the stage that hearing about suicide is now common, it is was viewed as trivial and petty back then. It seems like a reverse spectrum

Why teenagers so frequently engage in these dangerous activities was the topic of the book “Adolescent Risk Behaviors” By Wolfe, Jaffe, and Crooks which explains that relationships between others is the primary factor leading to these behaviors. Teenagers who listen The Downward Spiral by Trent Reznor, a 90’s top chart album, can identify with several of the coping methods that the narrator uses after his relationship with a person close to him comes to an end. The narrator in the album eventually commits suicide after finding none of these coping methods were truly effective, and he was only destroying himself the entire time. The work attempts to warn listeners from

The most known sociological explanation for suicide comes from Émile Durkheim (1858 – 1917). In his book ‘Suicide’ (2000), Durkheim tries to explain suicide in social terms, while suicide seems to be an extraordinarily personal thing. Durkheim distinguishes between four types of suicide,

This was observed by Durkheim in the state of widowhood or divorce. Both these cases are situations in which the existing setup is disturbed. The rate of suicide in widowhood was also discussed by Durkheim with respect to egoistic suicide but the new observation in case of anomic suicide that was observed by him was in the case of divorce and he noted that divorced people tend to commit suicide more than married people. In the modern society, anomy is the main reason for suicide. Anomic suicide is similar to egoistic suicide as both types of suicide stem from the lack of society’s presence in a individual’s life but in case of the former, it is mainly because no force restrains them while in the latter the individual does not find any meaning or objective in life.

Sociological Theory Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Sociological Theory Introduction Scholars have defined suicide as death that results directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim (Dillon 2010). Often, the victim is aware that his actions will produce death as a result. Durkheim distinguishes between four subtypes of suicide including egoistic, altruistic, anomic and fatalistic.

Suicide known as an act that includes person’s death by himself on purpose (1). Suicide crime’s happens often because of desperation when he feels hopeless for achieving anything in his life and that makes the person in lots of pain and he might get into lots of problems as taking drugs or abusing to others. There are 3 main factors causes suicide (2): 1- Biological: genetic factors, prenatal and postnatal factors, imbalance in brain chemistry, alterations in neurotransmission also who have a physical health problems like cancer, chronic pain, traumatic brain injury and who had more than one health problem are more exposure than the others 2- Sociocultural: Personal relationships between (family, lovers, friends) Family stability (problems or abuses in the family) Economic status (financial difficulty, unemployment, poverty) Social cohesion, Work environment (without harsh director, bully)

Is Social Problems Among Teenagers An Increasingly Worrying Phenomenon? Nowadays, social problems are one of the major concerns in society and the condition got worsen year by year, mainly contributed by teenagers. Social problems emerged due to influences of the bad cultures from other countries. Teenagers cannot identify and differentiate between good and bad conducts.

It’s a proven fact that college students are likely to be stressed, can feel isolated and out of place because of their new environment, and tend to use substances like drugs or alcohol. All of these factors can lead to an increase in the likelihood of college students committing suicide (“Suicide Statistics”). According to some statistics, “fifty-four percent of completed suicides are done by firearm” (“Suicide Statistics”). The increased access to guns that allowing them on campus would cause could lead to an increase in suicide on college campuses.

In one study, out of six different anxiety disorders, PTSD had the closest relation to suicidal thoughts and attempts (Sareen et al., 2005). If PTSD is so prominent in veterans and PTSD also has a high correlation to suicidal thoughts, it is imperative that something is done to find ways to reach them before it gets to that point. The symptoms of PTSD can interfere with the daily life of a veteran, which also relates to the risk factors earlier in this paper. These symptoms can result in substance use, family violence, problems with daily functioning, trouble holding a job, and much more. Left untreated, the aftermath of the PTSD itself can cause many more risk factors for suicide.

Studies have shown that suicidal behaviors in adolescence are often cursory thoughts, but these thoughts change as the individual enters adulthood (Nkansah-Amankra, 2013). The ideation of suicide can become a reality. There are many reasons why an individual would commit suicide. Many of the reasons are also characteristics of emerging adulthood. The lack of appropriate coping mechanisms or support to handle these challenges, can translate to suicide risk (Horwitz, Czyz, and King, 2014).

Bullying is the number one crime that most teens commit in America’s society. Many people all throughout the world have been a victim of bullying or has bullied someone for many different reasons. Bullying can cause a variety of mental and emotional problems in a person because he/she becomes problematic and deals with loneliness and depression. Bullies have come about because they either lack attention at home or are being abused and feel the need to bully others. However, many victims become fed up and turn to suicide as the permanent solution.

In conclusion, the circumstances and conditions that lead an individual to commit suicide are extremely complex. However, with LGBTQ youth, understanding the dynamic of societal and familial conditions that are consistent among reported incidents of suicide or attempted suicide in this group is crucial for prevention. It is our culture’s intolerance of homosexuality, which is often violent, that leads many teens to consider suicide and an alarming number to take their own lives. The popular assumption that an LGBTQ individual is inherently at risk for suicide is evidence of our culture’s inability to understand or accept differences in sexual orientation or sexual expression. Our intolerance is reflected in the incidents where these people are targeted and bullied because of their perceived sexual orientation or because they do not conform to accepted gender expectations.

(Add what the issue is) Teen suicide affects everyone as i mentioned before. In that moment it is also affecting the person itself. They are also affecting there loved ones , friends , ex partners and probably people they didn 't really speak to. When the attempted has happened they didn 't realize that they were hearing there loved ones.