Is 13 Reasons Who Struggle For Depression?

Studies have shown that ninety percent of teens who commit suicide are due to a mental illness such as depression (Teen Suicide Statistics 1). This percentage is immensely prominent, and the suicide rate is only climbing. In 1975, there were 1,594 teen suicides, and the numbers have now escalated to 2,061 teen suicides (Holmes 1). Unfortunately, almost half of the teens who have seriously thought about attempting suicide, actually commit suicide (Suicidal Teens 1). Often Holden Caulfield thinks about suicide but doesn’t attempt suicide.

The question is why do some teens do it? What's different about them? The answer is often depression. While only a fraction of people who suffer depression die by suicide, major depression is widely accepted as a common risk factor.” The article talks about suicide, which is the third leading cause of death in teens, that’s what my question deals with.

According to a Rolling Stones article about shows glamorizing teen suicide, they talk once more about “13 Reasons Why” and said “Due to the tapes, we don’t witness the utter emptiness and grief that occurs after someone commits

The idea of a teenager ending her life because of the people surrounding her is not uncommon today. I, myself, have had friends that have almost ended their own lives because of how a boy treated them or gossip surrounding them. Jay Asher illustrates the brutality and ugliness of these situations in such an honest way that I felt like Clay hearing these words that change his life. The book didn’t have a happy ending either—Hannah didn’t come back and Clay was left to deal with the mess that lay in her path. Sometimes stories find a way for there to be a happy resolution, but for Thirteen Reasons Why to be an authentic story it couldn’t have ended happily. Suicide, and specifically suicide in teenagers, is a real problem that needs to be acknowledged and prevented. Every story has many sides and you can never know what a person is truly going

In the novel 13 Reasons Why a teenage girl, named Hannah Baker, commits suicide amid rumors, betrayal and lies about her personal life. In the story 13 Reasons Why, Clay Johnson is introduced as a teen going through emotional turmoil, as Hannah Baker a friend of his has just committed suicide, and put out tapes about it. He and many others exhibited throughout the tapes are overwrought with emotion, as they follow the days and ultimately the 13 reasons why Hannah kills herself. rumors, reputation and sexual assault

In 2007, Jay Asher released the young adult novel 13 Reasons Why. It steadily gained popularity; it made the New York Times Bestseller List in 2011. In early 2017, Netflix took off with it and produced a 13-episode series. The story follows the suicide note (or rather, audio cassette tapes) left behind by high schooler Hannah Baker after she killed herself. Respected social figures and celebrities quoted the show and opened discussion about topics like depression, rape culture, bullying, and most obviously, suicide. On the thirteen tapes, Hannah walks the audience through the events and actions that led to her taking her own life, with each tape specifically about one of the thirteen people that she

Thirteen Reasons Why is a novel about a girl named Hannah Backer who committed suicide because of how people in her school treated her. The night before her death, she recorded seven cassettes with two sides each explaining why the thirteen people on the list gave her a reason to kill herself. The story focuses on Clay, the person who is listening to the tapes, who is in denial of the fact that he did something that gave Hannah a reason to committing. Fortunately, it turns out that Clay didn't do anything that led to Hannah's death which made him relieved.

In the past decades Suicide was a taboo topic to talk about especially in a movie or show. In the last decade suicide has become a less taboo topic. Especially this year after the show “13 Reasons Why” was released. The show is about a girl named Hannah who committed suicide and left tapes for each person who had a hand to play in her suicide.

Morality, how our lives are impacted by what we believe, how we feel and act, also how the people around us either help us or fail us. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15-24 year olds. Studies have shown that at least 90% of suicides have an unlying reason of mental health, it doesn’t just happen. Or caused by issues in school, friends and family, or a combination of all of these. Clearly, death from suicide is very common, disastrously common, in fact.

It was a calm and sultry Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor, in the United States (U.S.) territory of Hawaii on 7 December 1941. At approximately 07:48 Hawaiian Time the calm was broken as the first of two waves consisting of 353 Imperial Japanese fighter aircraft, bombers, and torpedo planes originating from six Japanese aircraft carriers, stationed strategically 230 miles north of the Island of Oahu, commenced the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hickam Air Base, Wheeler Field, and Naval Air Stations Barbers Point and Kaneohe Bay. The onslaught continued for almost 90 minutes. In jeopardy was a majority of the Pacific Fleet that had recently been moved there earlier in the year from the Naval Base at San Diego, California as part of a power project plan instituted by the Roosevelt administration to deter Japanese expansion in the Pacific. At the end of the attack the U.S. Pacific Fleet lay crippled almost pier side as they were moored at the time of the attack. As a result of the attack the U.S. incurred the loss of 2403 American lives with an additional 1178 being wounded. The U.S. had sustained extensive damage to all eight of her battleships with four being sunk, three cruisers, three destroyers, one anti-aircraft training vessel, and a minesweeper that were severely damaged. The U.S. Army Air Corps and naval aircraft losses were just as dramatic with the loss of 188 aircraft of all types. Miraculously, the U.S. Carriers the USS Lexington, USS Saratoga and the USS Enterprise were

The Netflix series 13 Reasons Why has been a popular topic for a large majority of teens and mental health experts. It is popular for its brutally honest portrayal of suicide, which some people, such as those from the National Association of School Psychologists, have severally mistaken as romanticism of the issue. The series not only expresses the vivid realities of suicide, it shines a light on what people actually feel that leads to this horrid act. What those people feel is extremely common and often overlooked because it is “not a real illness”, as claimed by the licensed psychologist Phil Hickey. It is time that our society began to stop hiding behind celebrity gossip and fashion trends, we need to begin discussing the more serious

Majority of mental health doctors today deal with a tremendously negative connotation which makes their jobs particularly hard. A TV series that deals with suicide of all things should not be aiding that reputation, however, 13 Reasons Why did not oppose it. The counselor that appears in the show seems to be uncaring, and not really know what she is talking about. That is the last thing we want mental illness victims to be hearing. This series exposes a huge, delicate issue in society but offers no damage control after presenting it. The goal of the show was to get people talking, raise awareness, acceptance, and support, which it most definitely achieved. There was, however, one extremely important thing missing from their goal list: get them help. Today so many people have mental health issues, and most people are incredibly accepting and supportive of them. But having support does not mean they get better, and the first step to that is getting real, professional help. Encouraging someone to seek help does not mean not accepting them, it means caring about them. If this show did indeed want to help with suicide, then it had a responsibility to actually aid teens in making progress towards recovery. A responsibility that it failed miserably at. By discounting medical professionals, the show caused far more damage than

Hannah let us know the causes which led her to commit suicide putting them in her story on the tapes. Her first thought and reason for committing suicide she mentioned is that “for the longest time, from almost day one at this school, it seemed that [she] was the only one who cared about [herself].” She has begun to feel that nobody cared, because she kept her feelings to herself and did not communicate distress to other people, so she “tended to set in motion a cycle of neglect.” Furthermore, there are many feelings which contribute to commit suicide in the adolescent ages and some of these are also experienced by the protagonist Hannah, namely the feelings of lonely, hopeless and helpless. A research proves that Hannah was “faced [with] an acute stress, such as the break-up [with Justin and Clay], feeling of abandon, may contemplate suicide as an acceptable option” and suffered from depression, which “especially if it leads to a sense of hopelessness, may increase the likehood of the person initiating a suicidal act.”

Life as a teenager may not be as easy as some people might think. Suicide may be what teenagers believe will be best for them. Young adults think it is the solution to all of their problems and stress. It can also be caused by a series of emotions. There are many complications that teenagers might be facing thinking they cannot be solved. Depression is the most common cause of teenage suicide. There are teens that might want to “socially fit in, academically fit in, and act responsibly.” (About Teen). Teenagers might have a low self esteem and feel hopeless and worthless, causing them to kill themselves for feeling that they are not good enough for anything. Teens might be dealing with bisexuality or homosexuality in an environment that is unsupportive. Breaking up with a boyfriend or girlfriend can be traumatic for some teens. Kids might be having a poor relationship with their families and peers. There might be emotional, physical or sexual abuse towards them. Teens might be victims of bullying. Young adults might be going through really big life changes like a parent’s divorce, financial changes, moving, etc. There are a lot of problems that these young teens could be going through and we would not know. Many problems going on today could lead teenagers to depression and have them want to

People need to be informed on why teens commit suicide and what signs to look for. Teens are slowly slipping away because of this deadly subject and people need to start noticing. Sometimes people can get caught up in their own personal lives and not even notice when a loved one is considering suicide. In the seven articles read, there were a variety of things that people seem to overlook often. Why teens are committing suicide and what people can do to help victims who are considering, are two main points that are important for people to know. In a Kids Health article about teen suicide, it talks about teen suicide and different things people need to know about it.