Suicide ranks as a leading cause of death but by knowing and understanding symptoms and causes suicide can be prevented. Suicide is an intentional attempt to kill oneself whether it issuccessful or unsuccessful. Suicide accounts for about one percent of all deaths in the UnitedStates each year (Disease, Condition or General Health Topic). During the last two decadessuicide rates among teenagers has increased three hundred percent (Coleman 1). Suicide attemptsfar outnumber actual suicides (Disease, Condition or General Health Topic).Every ninety minutes a teenager in the United States commits suicide and every nineminutes a teenager attempts suicide. About one hundred and twenty-five adolescents commitsuicide in one week and one thousand will try during that week (Coleman 1). More girls willattempt suicide than boys, but more boys will commit suicide than girls (2). Every year 30,000Americans will commit suicide (All About Suicide). Because they are likely to suffer from amental illness, particularly severe depression (Suicide).Depression is one of the most treatable mental disorders, and one of the under diagnosedand under recognized. This is a serious mood disorder that affects a person’s ability to function ineveryday activities. It affects how that person works, family life, and social life (All AboutSuicide). Suicidal behaviors occur as a response to a situation that the person views asoverwhelming (Disease, Condition or General Health Topic). “Someone who is profoundlydepressed, the option of suicide becomes the only option, the only way to control life and end theunremitting pain” (Leone 71).One of the scariest experiences a person suffers from in their lifetime is the experience ofdepression. More than one out of five Americans can expect to get some form of depression intheir lifetime and one out of twenty Americans have a depression disorder every year. Depressionis one of the most common and serious mental ...
