Suicide Among Young People

Implications for the public Suicide of a young person is a devastating and shocking moment in life. There should be much more attention given to is as it is a complex phenomenon and effects many young people in Canada. There are a few ways in which suicide can be prevented individual and communal level. If an individual level would only act as a band aid and help a few individuals communal level would help to lower the number of suicide in total. The difficulty lies in identifying clearly what would cause an individual to take their life (Fleischmann 2005). Therefore, rather than treating one by one the public should be more informed and exposed to awareness of mental health problems and how to cope with them. It is important to adjust the suicide prevention and mental health medications to suit the community and the culture in order to make them more effective. In addition to that, as stated above, people who have been exposed to suicide are more prone to it consequently; the feeling of pain and grief of those individuals should also be taken into consideration.
As adolescents are exposed to stigma and peer pressure, they are in need of specific help and preventions of such incidents (Sartorius 2005). Not many youth look for …show more content…
It also takes lives from many in the young demographic of Canada. Therefore, it should be paid much more attention. Changes have to be made to the social policies to help us understand mental health within our communities. There should be more education about mental illness and more help available to those who are seeking it. This will help decrease the number of those who are mentally ill and allow them to have a better life in which they will know that they have support by their side. This also decreases the gap between the mentally ill and will help improve the lives of