Problem+Research

"More and more city teens seeking psychiatric help." // DNA // [Daily News & Analysis] 17 Oct. 2011. // Infotrac Newsstand //. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. Document URL http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA269883284&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w
 * Abandon studies
 * Confine to their rooms for several days or longer
 * For bright students with successful parents, failure to do things may lead them into abandoning studies
 * Turn to drugs and alcohol
 * 80% of students that seek counseling are from rich, wealthy, and successful families
 * More disappointments (lack of family guidance and easy availability of resources at disposal most of the times)
 * Kids of successful families feel wronged by them (family) when they do not top what they picked to do
 * Those same kids don't take no easily

"Suicide signal: Look for behavioural changes." // DNA // [Daily News & Analysis] 4 Mar. 2010. // Infotrac Newsstand //. Web. 28 Oct. 2011.Document URL http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA220179311&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w
 * Students worried about their performance
 * Not enough confidence of doing well on exams
 * there is an increase in depression resulting from exam phobia
 * Suicide is preventable if the behavioral signs are tracked and read in time
 * When parents see these behavior changes fast help should be offered

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #c3c341; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Isolated girls most at risk." // USA Today // [Magazine] Apr. 2004: 10+. // Infotrac Newsstand //. Web. 28 Oct. 2011.Document URL http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA115405761&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #c3c341; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Teen girls are more likely to have suicidal thought because of social networks than teen boys do
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #c3c341; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Social relationship troubled girls
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #c3c341; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Isolated girls
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #c3c341; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Friends of people who have committed suicide
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #c3c341; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Girls who's friends who aren't friends

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Suicide." //KidsHealth - the Web's Most Visited Site about Children's Health//. Web. 31 Oct. 2011. <http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/feeling_sad/suicide.html>.


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">They are looking for a way out
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Don't necessarily want to die but they don't know how t escape the situation
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Talk about death or suicide
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Warning SignsA way to express their deep emotional pain
 * talking about suicide or death in general
 * talking about "going away"
 * referring to things they "won't be needing," and giving away possessions
 * talking about feeling hopeless or feeling guilty
 * pulling away from friends or family and losing the desire to go out
 * having no desire to take part in favorite things or activities
 * having trouble concentrating or thinking clearly
 * experiencing changes in eating or sleeping habits
 * engaging in self-destructive behavior (drinking alcohol, taking drugs, or cutting, for example)
 * Only option

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Pahl, Jorg J. "The rippling effects of suicide." // USA Today // [Magazine] Sept. 1996: 62+. // Infotrac Newsstand //. Web. 31 Oct. 2011.Document URL <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA18742353&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w
 * In physic pain
 * Anyone under enough emotional stress and/ or pain can fall victim
 * Worst from of desertion
 * Leaves emotional scares
 * Causes much pain and suffering