Suicide is the third most common cause of death among adolescents between 15-25 years of age and the sixth most common cause among 5-15 years old. The latest mean world wide annual rates of suicide per 100,000 are 0.5 for females and 0.9 for males. Among half of all teens suffering from depression will attempt suicide at least once and approximately 7% of them would succeed on the first try.
Teenagers are indefensible to the threat of suicide due to increased stress from school and work. Teens are also dealing with hormonal fluctuations that can complicate even most normal situation. The suicide rate among young teens and young adults has increased by more than 300% in the last three decades, increased incidence of childhood depression and decreased family stability are some social and personal changes which can increase the desire to commit suicide.
In fact according to the study by ”National Institute Of Mental Health” the people who commit suicide suffer from a diagnostic mental disorder. Unfortunately because of the often volatile relationship between teens and their parents make the teens comprehend as though they have no other solution of their problems and may not realise that suicidal thoughts and feelings can be treated.
In the recent survey of world bank has revealed the suicide rate is touching skies in Pakistan.The factors adding to it are somehow addiction to smoking, usage of drugs & hypertension among youngsters. This is alarming especially for the democratic government of Pakistan.Suicide has become a major public health problem in Pakistan. Rates for teen girls are statistically twice as likely as their male counterparts to attempt suicide.They tend to turn to drugs (overdosing) or to cut themselves, While boys are traditionally more successful in their suicide attempts because they utilise more severe methods such as guns and hanging,this method comparatively makes boys almost four times more prosperous in committing suicide.
The highest rates for men between ages of 20-35 years is in Larkana.There are no official data on suicide from Pakistan. Despite this there is compelling evidence that suicide have increased in Pakistan in recent years.The lay press in Pakistan regularly report on suicide incidences in Pakistan. A study highlights the increased rate is due to socioeconomic and contextual factors.
Difficulties in school, neither working nor being in school, dropping out of high school and not attending college pose significant risk for completed suicide.Teens are more likely to kill themselves if they read,seen or heard about other suicide attempts.Moreover the unacceptable behaviour of teachers or high expectations of good grades from parents are likely to be one of the major reason of committing suicide among adolescents.
A recent case was reported in Abbotabad and Karachi on 29th May 2012. Two students committed suicide, with one blaming the intolerable behaviour of his teacher and the reason for ending his own life. Mobin, 13 year old student of one of the private boarding school of Abbotabad wrote in his diary that the insufferable attitude of his teacher forced him to come back home and hang himself. Mobin’s former teacher Sohrab Jadoon told police that young boy was unhappy with his hostel life. Meanwhile a student depressed with bad grades ended his life in Karachi’s Paposh Nagar Area.
The great loss of our young generation should be saved. Youth suicide prevention strategies should be implemented within three dominions – School community and health are systems. School based suicide prevention programs should increase awareness and promote identification of students at higher risk of suicide and they should provide knowledge about behavioural characteristics of teens at risk of suicide and enhance the coping ability of teens.
More over, Parents need to be as open and as attentive as possible to their adolescent children’s difficulties. The most effective suicide prevention technique parents acan exercise is to maintain open lines of communication with their children. Sometimes teens hide their problems, not wanting to burden the people they love.
It is extremely important to assure teens that they can share their troubles, and gain support in the process. Parents are encouraged to talk about suicide with their children, and to educate themselves by attending parent-teacher meetings. Once trained, parents can help to staff a crisis Hartline in their community. Parents also need to be involved in the counselling process if a teen has suicidal tendencies. These activities may both alleviate parents’ fears of the unknown and assure teenagers that their parents care.
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