| I just posted this..
"As one who has attempted suicide before(on account of what doesn't matter), I say it's not necessarily society as a whole that can cause individuals to feel like this, but family situations as well. Some people must not recognize it, but I'm pretty sure the rate of children with divorced parents has gone up quite a lot. I can go to my school and i bet around 7 out of 10 kids there have divorced parents. Maybe one of the spouse was the abusive type like my father who hits their children and that can make the kid feel like shit no matter who else cares about them. What one person says or does can make a large influence on a growing teenager, when you're our age, a lot can stick to you until you want it all to go away and it seems like suicide is the only solution, when in reality it could be. In my opinion, therapy or anything can't really solve those problems. Many say suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. But they don't know that. That problem could be permanent as well. Don't stereotype people like me as saying that we were stupid, selfish kids who wanted our problems to go away. We could be trying to help someone who seems to want us to go away. We could actually have a disease. Don't look at us as a whole, look at us as individuals because we all have individual problems, and we all think about things a different way and from a different perspective. Be careful what you say to everyone, because you may not know everything about that person, and it could be their last straw. Does anyone else agree with me?" Really. Does anyone?
I'm aware everyone thinks it's selfish to commit suicide as a teen.
I'm aware there are plenty of people who have to deal with far worse then some of them have who have never even given a thought about suicide.
But I'm also aware that they're obviously not the same person Everyone has a different level of how much they can take. For example, I'd never make it in war. There's too much death everywhere. I'm anti-war. :P But that's not the point. The point is that whereas I can't make it in war because it's too depressing, Someone else might. This other person has a higher tolerance of being able to deal with situations like this. And this person would have had to start learning this tolerance at a much earlier age from when they were first born. They would have had to(metaphorically speaking of course) been scarred over and over again with the scab being peeled off again and again. That is something that has never happened to me. I was babied all my life so even the smallest ounce of hatred would kill me inside. And if you're being killed inside, many will think, what's the point of living on the outside? I think many people are suffering like this. Their mother or father may think that they're saving their child by always keeping them on the outside, not knowing dangers.. but all they're doing is making that child suffer. Later on in life, that child may suffer from seeing the real world's dangers. First-hand. You can't just be educated about these dangers! You have to witness them. That's why I think the suicide rate might be getting higher.
There are plenty of reasons I believe, actually.
Because every individual who has the strength to cut themselves, or shoot themselves, or overdose, or jump off a bridge..
They're doing it for a different reason. |
