Why Do Children Commit Suicide

Children and adolescents with psychological disorders are attempting and committing suicide. Anorexia nervosa occurs when people have fears about gaining body weight. People with anorexia often participate in intense exercises and often have poor eating habits so they can maintain their weight. Some common characteristics that people with anorexia can display is exercising for hours, abnormal eating habits, and unhealthy body weight. Anorexia is affecting how adolescents and children view themselves. For instance, some of them are unpleased with their body type and have negative images of themselves. Some young people are intentionally harming themselves, because they are unhappy with themselves. Namely, some young children are cutting and …show more content…
Adolescents and children with eating disorders and harming themselves could have caused researchers to study this topic. Methods that were used to investigate this topic included ninety children and adolescents who were between the ages of seven and eighteen. Young people who were involved in the study were majority females. The people in the study were diagnosed with an eating disorder and their weight was classified as under, within, or over within the normal weight for their gender and age groups. Participants that were involved in the study had parents with high occupation status. In addition, parents were asked to rate their children's behavior. While the young participants provided potential problems that were causing their disorders. For instance, some young people were experiencing lack of sleep, anxiety, depression and parents with demanding occupations. The most notable results were young people with bulimia are more likely to attempt suicide that people with anorexia. In addition, how suicide rates increased if young people with eating disorders also had other psychological disorders. For instance, children and adolescents who experienced anxiety, depression, or ADHD. Implications that the results have for future research was present, because the article mentioned preventions. For instance, adolescents and children getting more sleep and getting the proper treatment