The act of a person ending one’s own life is called suicide. There is an estimate of about a million deaths a year with suicides alone, and it has become one of the leading causes of death. The reason for one’s decision of performing this act varies upon people, origin, emotions, surroundings, and ethnicity. People have attempted and also succeeded in suicide for many years. In fact, it has been going on for centuries. It has become such a large controversial issue that any solution to prevent high rates seems hardly possible. Putting everyone from all around the world, including youth, teens and adults, on anti-depressants will keep themselves from having a chance of being suicidal, regardless of all risk factors and any difficulties.
Those who have suicidal thoughts assume that this act is appropriate and not wrong in any way. Most victims are usually going through emotional pain, mental disorders, depression, or stress they believe that they cannot handle. Their only solution in their minds is that suicide is the only way to end all pain. Although there is an American proverb: “Time heals all wounds”. This means that any pain, physical or mental, will eventually heal. Everything just takes time. Even though this proverb may be right, because it is such a long process to get over and through a certain type of distress, people believe they are not strong enough to keep themselves in such a painful state for that long time period. Most of those who experience depression believe their pain is inevitable.
The youth is also in position to be inclined to attempt suicide. They also have the possibility of depression or insecurity. Teenagers are going through “phases” at this point in life that they believe is too much on their plate to handle. Family issues, losing a certain loved one, a major breakup with a significant other, or some sort of trauma that these kids face all leave psychological scars. This triggers them to become victims. Bullying is also one of the biggest reasons for suicide in youth. According to the Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior journal, (High School Bullying as a Risk for Later Depression and Suicidality, pages 501–516) studies show that the younger kids of about 11 years of age that go through bullying, become a victim of suicidality as a young adult.
Young adults are the ones who are most likely to become victims. They are facing the responsibilities of growing up, and this is the stage where young adults are finally learning more about life. Young adults are more prone to substance or behavior disorders which can also be factors. For example, college students who party and abuse alcohol have a higher rate of suicide. Studies show that some college students who go through a psychological state of trying to belong with a certain person or a group of other students, who also like to drink, become victims because of some sort of unhappy state or becoming addicted. (Alcohol-Related Problems and Risk of Suicide among College Students: The Mediating Roles of Belongingness and Burdensomeness pages 543–553)
Even adults or the elderly who actually have their life together and are settled down with families can also be targets of suicidality. Some may have also been going through substance abuse, trauma, certain types of psychological disorders, depression, or even a feeling of their independence lost. (Keith Hawton, the Lancet.) A man may have just lost his kids through a divorce, lost his job, and started drinking consistently. He may be feeling like he’s lost everything that was stable in his life and this could be one factor to his depression and suicide. The rate of suicide, in all ages, differs from all different origins of the world. India may have a higher rate than the U.S. because of the many various factors in each different location from around the globe.
There are those who have health problems. There are psychological disorders in about 90% of those who were suicidal (The Lancet). Most of these victims were experiencing substance abuse, disorders that came from traumatizing events, and mainly depressive reasons. There are also those who are physically ill. For example, a hospitalized cancer patient may become so ill and may be suffering from every single surgery and chemotherapy session they have gone under. With the right treatments and procedures, she may have a chance of becoming better, but she believes that she will not. They have decided they want to end all the pain and suffering and undergo assisted suicide. Assisted suicide is the help of a physician to the act suicide. It is illegal in most states, but there are few states and other places round the world where it is found legal.
People who are on anti-depressants would generally become happier people who will keep themselves from examples like bullying or substance abuse. There are other solutions that others have proposed that have not been too highly effective. Some proposed therapy was the effective way of preventing a higher risk of suicide, but it has not become effective to the point where rates did go down. Targeting the high-risk victimized groups to treat and help stabilize their emotions was one strategy of prevention as well. As there are different proposals for a solution to prevent the rates of suicide from going up, putting everyone on anti-depressants would benefit people regardless of any refutations.
The opposition may disapprove of this solution simply because it is a medication. People may defy the idea of having to take a treatment for some disorder or problem they may not have. The entirety of this solution is to prevent the chance of becoming a victim, more than treating it. Although the treatment of depression is incredibly important as well, the chance of helping people who are already victims is somewhat high, as preventing the risk of suicidality will help us decrease numbers in people needed to help. So as time goes on, less people with lower risks will mean fewer victims.
Some may also argue about the financial part of the treatment. Paying amounts of money for a medication that a person might think they would not need would be hard to force upon them. Informing a person about the risks and seriousness of the situation may change their perspective about taking the medication. Another proposal on the taxes of medical bills may go to helping the decrease of the price of the purchase of the medication. Doing so, money would not be such a large issue into taking the anti-depressants.
Anti-depressants today are created and prescribed to victims for the help of depression from any difficult time period in their lives (Jens Ludwig, Anti-Depressants and Suicide). Putting everyone on this medication should keep most people happy, and if not happy, then at least stable enough to go through life challenges without either less, or a single suicidal thought(s). This solution would require everyone more in a range of ages ten and up, and everyone who is capable and physically well enough would have to take daily anti-depressants. This medication is mandatory to making this solution beneficial to the community because it would help prevent future risk of becoming suicidal.
A complete system will be made for the solution to be more effective and beneficial. Mandatory visits from doctors will be required in order to come and pick up doses and prescriptions of the medicine, and clients are to take them as told. Clients will also be signed up for therapeutic appointments in order to see if they are stable and have any clear signs of depression. Those who have lower symptoms or fewer signs will have smaller dosages as those who have more signs of any of the listed factors will have larger dosages of anti-depressants.
Having these mandatory therapy sessions and checkups will help the rate of suicides become lower. People from all around the world every day suffer from the loss of a loved one that has attempted and succeeded at the act of suicide. This method, as a prevention solution, will help people into becoming closer to one another, and will help people become more open with their emotions. Lending an ear or a hand will always help one person think they have the help they need to go through any difficult life challenges. As those with mental disorders, the dosage that you will be required to take will also help their psychological state and put them into a better one into valuing life.
This solution may be more significant than any other proposal solutions made from others because it is actually taking a stance into something different. This is a medication that is made to help a person’s emotional feelings into improving their life conditions. Giving them out individually to everyone will help greatly. It is necessary for this solution to be effective because people’s lives are taken away from them when it should not be. Taking your own life when you actually have a decision to live is basically wrong. Life is valuable, so taking at least one of the leading causes of death off the list will help greatly in the number of deaths a year in general.
Suicidality is becoming one of the biggest death-related controversial issues from all around the world. The factors that lead to suicidal can all be treatable if each individual is willing to participate in a required situation of taking medication. Because suicide is one of the leading causes of death, this solution benefits not only decreasing death rates, but also the loved ones of the victims. A person with suicidal thoughts won’t negatively affect a certain loved one if they are on anti-depressants. As a victim taking the treatment, it will also keep loved ones from having the feeling of loss. The daily required dosages of anti-depressants will help each individual take a step toward becoming a more content person. Any person has the capability of becoming a victim of depression, and with the help of this special treatment, taking it regularly will help decrease the risk and rate of suicides.
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Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 41.5 (2011): 543-53. Print.
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