Posted on 03/05/2015 2:53:31 PM PST by BenLurkin
More teens who are killing themselves are choosing suffocation and strangling, government researchers reported Thursday. And more young women are committing suicide.
It's a troubling trend and it's not clear what's driving it, the team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
"The data don't allow us to determine why," said the CDC's Thomas Simon, a suicide expert who helped lead the study. "Is it social media? Is it conventional media? Is it access to other methods?"
What CDC is very worried about is giving troubled a teens a "how-to" guide for how to commit suicide, but the agency also wants parents, teachers, friends and others to be aware of the risks. When media report on certain suicide methods, often officials see a rise in suicides afterwards, using the method described.
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If I ever have kids they won’t want to emulate me in sex, smoking and drinking...
It’ll kill em...
Well, no. Most of the time, they take pills and call a friend.
Which is why pills have a 12% success rate.
Vs. 95% for shooting yourself in the head with a shotgun.
http://lostallhope.com/suicide-methods/statistics-most-lethal-methods
Make that 99%.
He actually said “data don’t”? As opposed to “data doesn’t”?
Because of a tremendous increase in vice(loss of meaningful structure.) teens are in love with death both individually and collectively.
This is SO true. The other insidious thing about social media is that it presents a distorted reality. Very few people (any age) post the mundane, boring, or depressing details of their lives. They post the exciting or interesting stuff. So, kids get the impression that everybody else's life is so much better than theirs or that other kids don't have the same problems or issues they do. That just exacerbates whatever negative things they may be experiencing, makes them feel isolated, and like they're the only ones with problems. Because they're immature, it doesn't occur to them that what they're getting on social media isn't a true representation of other people's lives.
They have no idea. No idea at all.
We grew up in stable homes, with married parents, with unlocked doors. We knew what sex we were and right from wrong and what was expected of us. No, life wasn’t perfect and sometimes things were hidden but by and large life was much more secure for young folks than it was now. Two girls in my school I knew of got pregnant - I’m sure more, but I didn’t know about it. We didn’t talk about it. It wasn’t anyone’s business.
Now kids have NO stablility at all - they don’t know what sex they are, if their parents will stay together, if their parents will have secure jobs, who God is (we all knew - we all went to church or whatever) and even if we didn’t, we understood He was in control. I’ve said for years the fruit of liberalism is going to be a giant mess of mental illness manifested in our children, who are terrified and unhappy and have no idea how to face life - and here comes the social media and our oversexed society to put every extra drop of pressure on them it can.
The bulwark of security for America was the family and faith, and liberals have destroyed that for so many. So the kids are left with no safety net. And the state doesn’t understand “WHY” they can’t face life.
I’m angry.
Auto erotica?
Huh? Dead is dead. Why is it any more shocking when it’s suffocation versus pills?
And I blame facebook. I’m not some fuddy duddy that just hates new things. Everywhere you go the kids are glued to their phones getting the latest update. They have no social skills, no coping skills, no friends, and all they see on facebook is how great everyone’s life is while they toil through their daily routines. (How many people post mundane things on facebook?) Then, once they hit the gawky teen years they are ruthlessly bullied. Of course the simple solution is not get the kids cell phones and internet but that won’t happen any time soon.
As a teen I would contemplate suicide. Funny - all our guns and ammo were open in the basement next to my room. It never occured to me to use a gun - those were for hunting, and to be used with the utmost safety!
If I thought about it now, I still wouldn’t use a gun. One more excuse for the gun grabbers.
Not to worry. Here in Seattle they are trying to figure out how to work pre-school care that they voted on. To provide “school” for 3 and 4 year-olds. In Boston “pre-school” runs for 10 months and 6-8 hours a day.
(Can you even imagine!!??)
A guy at our church talked about how ‘adolescence” is the time of life figuring out who you are. Back in Jesus’ day you knew as a child “who you were” because of your tribe and living with those ideals everyday. When a girl had their first period - they were an adult.
The idea of a family and “tribe” is gone, and kids are getting bombarded with all sorts of different messages. This “expert” was saying how by many measures, the average age of adolescence in today's males is in the upper twenties.
Think about what they see and hear from “family” tv, friends, and idiots. It was rough for kids 25 years ago and today? Inundated with garbage.
Didn’t lots of `teen suicides’ in the 1980’s (their anxiety brought on by `Reagan the nuclear madman’) turn out to be autoerotic asphyxiations gone horribly wrong?
I think a large percentage of the population visits the thought of suicide at least once as a teen. I know I did when multiple divorces mangled my childhood experience.
I decided I could survive my messy life, and looked forward to better adventures. The vast majority of us probably also discard that thought within minutes or less.
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