Personal Narrative Essay: The Cause Of Teen Suicide

As acclaimed author Mary Roach once said, “I don 't fear death so much as I fear it 's prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach” (Roach). For me the validity of this quote is unwavering. I was personally impacted by the sadistic daily inconsistencies and emotional toying brought about by a dark ravenging depression brought about by bullying and the ever impending divorce of my parents that would adventually leave me a hollowed out shell of who I previously was. My heart black, my soul empty, and my mind a barren wasteland consumed by darkness. I attempted to evade the darkness my filling my lungs with the siering smoke of drugs or cleans my throat with the refined alcoholic concoctions I came so adept at making. I was adventually to be sent to counseling that for me was a joke in its own right. The idea of death was coming closer and begun to look more appealing every day death …show more content…
Julian Guthrie, a reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle stated in his article about a recent teen suicide that “Competitive, self-critical, high-achieving, students make up an estimated one -third of all teen suicides” (Guthrie, 82). This concept is quite understandable due to the fact that these teens have to go about their lives as if nothing were wrong masking how they feel behind shroud of attention they 've come to so desperately need. While the anxiety to gain the most positive attention possible is what pushes them to excel in their day to day life it can also get the best of them causing them to become tediously critical of every minute mistake. Being a student athlete only adds to the self inflicted pressure you feel everyday one dropped pass, missed shot, or overthrown ball you begin to break yourself down, a star player burning their self out leading to an