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Suicide Rates Are Staggeringly Getting Higher

Suicide rates are staggeringly getting higher every year nationally, not just in the United States. The highest suicide rates are among teens and middle aged men and women. For teens, one factor is the social media craze as 94 percent of teenagers from 13-17 in age, have some sort of platform for like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram on their smart phones, tablets, or computers. With that, brings cyberbullying as on average 26 percent of middle and high school students have been victims of harassment, threatened or embarrassed by peers. With feeling depressed and know way out, some teens will commit suicide. There is also pressure from parents to be the best academically or in sports and teens don’t feel they can live up to their parent’s standards, so they turn to suicide. There are the middle aged men and women who have had increase in suicides over the last several years and partly due to mental illnesses, substance abuse, they are lonely, have financial or relationship issues are some of the reasons they are committing suicide. There were nearly 45,000 deaths from suicide in in the United States in 2016 which was one every 12.8 minutes and this is in the United States alone. Although we are only talking about teenagers and middle aged men and women, suicide happens in all ages ranging from nine years to the elderly. With the help of better and more mental health hospitals and schools working together with parents we need to work to lower those numbers of suicides.