Young kids suicide

[karel1987]

I read about young people killing themself because nude pictures are leaked or because the bullied. How can a young person commit suicide I'm 30 an stil a bit afraid to do it, even when my life sucks.

 

[thischarmingman]

im young- but age is slightly irrelevant when it comes to fear, as I'm completely fine with heights for example, but I know 50 year old adults who are more scared than I am. I suppose it's just situations and willpower.

 

[Mr. Incapable]

I've seen stories about young people committing suicide due to blackmail, bullying and harassment, failing exams, break ups.. I think when you're young you tend to be a bit more naive, impulsive, perhaps tend to think less about the implications or consequences.. then when you're middle-aged and older, I think a lot of people are probably worn out having exhausted all their efforts to try and live, especially if they've felt that depression or suicidal ideation for decades possibly. I'm 31 and absolutely certain that I would rather be dead than continue living my life, but even I'm terrified.. I've had thoughts of suicide since I was 13, made my first serious attempt when I was 20, and currently I've been actively attempting / trying to build up the courage for the last TWO YEARS.. it's really so difficult and I'm running out of time.. so I understand your frustration when you see others able to do something you can't

 

[Meretlein]

More impulsivity and less ability to regulate emotions.

Many people in that situation are acting at the height of emotion, it is not a slow burning sense of suicidal misery day in and day out.

 

[FuneralCry]

They must have just got desperate and managed to find the courage to leave. I wish that I left when I was much younger. It would have been the best possible thing for me. It would have prevented so much suffering. I envy those who no longer exist.

 

[outrider567]

I read about young people killing themself because nude pictures are leaked or because the bullied. How can a young person commit suicide I'm 30 an stil a bit afraid to do it, even when my life sucks.

Think they do it by hanging--Bullying in many countries leads to tragic consequences for teens and adolescents

 

[Mtnwildflowers]

Young people are more impulsive. Brains aren't even fully developed until 25

 

[FogFilledLife]

Young people are more impulsive. Brains aren't even fully developed until 25

This, and the fact that they have less in life. An adult can go anywhere, to a kid their whole world is one small place.

 

[lostmyself]

There was a recent story about an 11 year old did it by shooting himself. He was a victim of bullying. I think in general the younger you are, the less fear you have and the brain isn't fully developed either. That is why it's best to learn how to ski etc when you are young, there isn't a fear.

 

[Euthanza]

Young people are more impulsive. Brains aren't even fully developed until 25

So, club 27 isn't really all about myth, is it? When it meets the logical explanation, I'm a bit disappointed why Exit International limiting its members for 50yo threshold only.

24 for men and 21 for women, this is from scientific view but I guess life has some more things to explain as every human individually unique.
https://www.scottishsentencingcounc...es-not-fully-mature-until-you-are-at-least-25

https://www.medicaldaily.com/men-ma...s-after-be-exact-british-study-reveals-246716

 

[Superdeterminist]

It's really strange to me as well, I wonder how these young people were able to summon the courage. It comes down to what your brain essentially allows you to do, IMO. They felt an urge so intense that it just had to happen.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

For every one kid that commits suicide due to bullying, there are probably 1000 kids who are, also, bullied that don't. Society, and people in general, always like to focus on the extremes. This is in no way meant to diminish the real anguish that so many kids face due to bullying. It's a scourge on our society.

 

[peanuts]

I think young people are able to do it easily because they don't understand death being permanent yet. Risk taking behaviours in young people are in part due to lack of impulse control, and I think a lot of children who die may very well not mean to actually permanently disappear, and that's such a scary, sad thought.

For every one kid that commits suicide due to bullying, there are probably 1000 kids who are, also, bullied that don't. Society, and people in general, always like to focus on the extremes. This is in no way meant to diminish the real anguish that so many kids face due to bullying. It's a scourge on our society.

Not sure what your point is.. that kids who are bullied are still more likely going to survive than kill themselves? Um.. thats really not reassuring .. and it's hardly the media's fault for focusing on the extremes.

 

[karel1987]

When I was young I was so afraid of death. Because I had the illusion that things will get better. Now I'm in my 30s, I now that thing won't get better en if i die that be great. before you 20s you SI is the greatest and then it reduced. In your 70 or 80 your SI is a lot lower because your experienced deaths a lot of difficult times.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

Not sure what your point is.. that kids who are bullied are still more likely going to survive than kill themselves? Um.. thats really not reassuring .. and it's hardly the media's fault for focusing on the extremes.

It means just what it says and that is not all bullied kids are driven to suicide. Not all kids who get nude images of themselves circulated on the Internet kill themselves. Only a small fraction of a percent kill themselves. What kind of assuring do you expect? That it's possible to change human nature? Do you think that the number who kill themselves can be driven to zero? A discussion on a suicide forum will do little, most likely nothing, to change anything. Change requires getting out there in the trenches and getting your hands dirty. And it is the media's fault to some degree for sensationalizing this kind of thing and reinforcing ideas into extremely mold-able minds at such a tender age. They don't do it to help. They do it for ratings because that's what the people want. They're guilty of fueling the fire.

 

[MyStateKilledMe]

No one mention something yet: kids and teens (hereafter, simply "kids") live with their PARENTS.

Other than bullies, parents are the most common reason why these people commit suicide. Parents have their own dumb ideas of what their kid should be like, and they try to force them into the kid. On top of that, they withhold their love, emotionally abuse the kid, and/or inflict punishment on him/her for failing to live up to those ideas. Sooner or later, the kid decides that it's less hassle to just CTB than to constantly struggle to live up to the impossibly difficult ideas.

These things would be a nonissue 100+ years ago, when kids who were being abused could simply run away. They could hitch a ride on a freight train, get to a big city where they could hide in a crowd, find a job in a warehouse somewhere, and start a new challenging but abuse-free life. The parents would be out of luck. Today, however, an army of police detectives would bring the kid back home, continuing the abuse cycle, until the kid grows up and moves out, or CTB's.

That's why when I hear about parents losing their kid to The Bus, I feel no sympathy for them at all.