Reply #4: I can state my opinion anyway I want... [View All]

[1corona4u]

I read his letter, and it seems to me, this problem for him was much deeper, and went farther back than just the week before. You have to remember that everyone that is suicidal doesn't go shooting at people too. People deal with it differently. he just chose to do it this way. And, by the way, when it first broke on the news, I called it BEFORE they even said, who, and what it was about. It's on this board somewhere. So call it women's intuition, or whatever, but you don't have to be there, to know there.

Youth

Suicide is the fifth leading cause of death among those 5-14 years old.
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among those 15-24 years old.
Between the mid-1950s and the late 1970s, the suicide rate among U.S. males aged 15-24 more than tripled (from 6.3 per 100,000 in 1955 to 21.3 in 1977). Among females aged 15-24, the rate more than doubled during this period (from 2.0 to 5.2). The youth suicide rate generally leveled off during the 1980s and early 1990s, and since the mid-1990s has been steadily decreasing.
Among young people aged 10-14 years, the rate has doubled in the last two decades.
Between 1980-1996, the suicide rate for African-American males aged 15-19 has also doubled.
Risk factors for suicide among the young include suicidal thoughts, psychiatric disorders (such as depression, impulsive aggressive behavior, bipolar disorder, certain anxiety disorders), drug and/or alcohol abuse and previous suicide attempts, with the risk increased if there is situational stress and access to firearms.


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