Suicide And Suicide Article Analysis

This article explains the correlation between suicide and depression, which is about 90%. This organization called SAVE, focuses on raising awareness about suicide and educating the general public. Chronic depression is a precursor to suicide, it leads to a sense of hopelessness and many choose to express this lack of hope by committing suicide. Suicide is an escape from the persistent pain of depression and should never be ignored. Explaining both suicide and depression is a huge part of this article so the audience can understand both thoroughly. Depression is a general term that includes mood disorders such as major depressive disorder and dysthymia, the chemical balance between serotonin and norepinephrine. This leads to different thought …show more content…
The author disagrees that depression and suicide rates have increased over the years but rather people are more outward with their feelings in the world today. Singh says that the use of social media is making it appear that depression has been on the rise. He starts his article off by addressing the distain for the millennial generation by their older peers, using this as one reason he doesn’t admit he is a part of the millennial generation often. However, he also uses this to introduce his skepticism on the increasing rates of depression and suicide within his generation. He quotes a few psychologists like Jean Twenge, Slate and even Brooke Donatone to show his opposition’s reasoning and point of view. As being part of the millennial generation himself, he believes that these claims are a tad bit ridiculous. He goes on to quote Mitch Prinstein, who is a psychologist from UNC, to support his stand that depression and suicide are not on the rise within the recent years. He says that depression is normal within the young adult stage of life, and that the depression and suicide rates are not comparable between this generation and the past generations because researchers don’t have any information on the past generation’s depression rates. Singh claims that depression and suicide rates have not increased in recent years but does not provide any statistics to back up that claim. He …show more content…
This article goes on to say that talking about suicide to someone who is considering it and talks about the seemingly unending pain of suicide. Then it goes on to cover the misconception about suicide that some people believe from people talking about committing suicide not really wanting to do it to people committing suicide all being crazy. Warning signs of someone thinking about committing suicide include: suicidal talk, looking for things that could be used to commit suicide with, like a gun, and a sense of hopelessness. All of these signs are considered even more dangerous if the person is an alcoholic, has depression or is bipolar, and if someone in their family has committed suicide in the past. Some who are about to commit suicide plan it out as much as to suddenly make a will and visit family members to say a final goodbye. While others withdraw from the world around them and isolate themselves while they self-destruct. Finally this article discusses tips on how to prevent someone from committing suicide. Speaking up is a common theme of this article as one of the ways to prevent suicide and the article goes on to give suggestions on how to breach this uncomfortable topic with someone and gives a list on what and what not to do. The second tip given is how to respond in an emergency situation. Different levels are given to describe the likelihood that one is going