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"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



"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

  • Teen girls are more likely to have suicidal thought because of social networks than teen boys do
  • Social relationship troubled girls
  • Isolated girls
  • Friends of people who have committed suicide
  • Girls who's friends who aren't friends


"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>.


  • They are looking for a way out
  • Don't necessarily want to die but they don't know how t escape the situation
  • Talk about death or suicide
  • 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


Pahl, Jorg J. "The rippling effects of suicide." USA Today [Magazine] Sept. 1996: 62+. Infotrac Newsstand. Web. 31 Oct. 2011.Document URL
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