CDC Says Teen Suicide Rates Rising

In a recent report, the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, finds that the suicide rate among some teens groups are on the rise. This is the largest increase since the early 1990s this increase it a whopping 28 percent. Could this be part of an alarming trend or is it just a fluke. Let us hope it is flawed findings.

The rates of teen suicide went up in 2004 to 7.23 per thousand teens; the rate of the increase was one percent. That is a sad statistic even though it was a small increase. One child is too many when there are so many other alternatives available to these teens.

Specifically the rates of suicide among teen girls aged from ten to fourteen increased slightly in 2004, while the rate of suicide among the older female and male teens jumped almost a whole percent.

The CDC is working with our government on all levels to help prevent teen suicides. This help comes in the form of all these organizations combining their information on suicides to better understand why these children feel as if they have no way out of it. It is from the collection of this data that public is educated. An informed public is the key to helping show these teens that there is a better answer then to commit suicide.

The most common method is by firearms but hanging or suffocation methods are increasing. Of course, you have the accidental suicides with drug overdoses and so forth, but the main method for years has been by firearms.

Teens use many methods to attempt or actually commit suicide and as parents, we have the duty to help eliminate as many of those methods as we can. The most common method of teen suicide of course is firearms so the best advice is lock them up. However ultimately the best choice is and always has been to talk to your children, play a proactive role in their lives and not the role of a powerless parent.

What can we as a society to lower these rates? Talk to teens, lend an ear, or whatever you can do to show them that you care about them. These rates are on the rise so we must do something to change the outcome. Teacher, health professionals, caring neighbors all can help show the teens that there is a better answer.