Currently, suicide is considered a rather acute problem. So, in the world, every two seconds someone tries to commit suicide, and every twenty seconds they achieve their goal. 1,100,000 people die from this every year. Strange, but the number of people who committed suicide in this way is much greater than the number of those killed in the war.
Causes of suicide
According to official figures, more than 800 different factors can be attributed to the causes of suicide worldwide. The most significant are:
- 40% - for no reason;
- 19% - passed away because of fear of punishment;
- 18% - people with mental illness;
- 18% - suicide against the background of everyday problems;
- 6% - suicide due to various kinds of passions;
- 3% - people who could not survive the loss of property or money;
- 1, 4% - people fed up with life;
- 1, 2% - suicide, against the background of serious illnesses (AIDS, cancer)
In many cases, people themselves do not know why they did this, which is why, for the extras, the bulk of the reasons remain undisclosed. 80% of suicides let others know in advance about their intentions to die, albeit in very abnormal ways. But 20% of people die quite suddenly.
Love and suicide
Most people believe that suicide is inextricably linked to unhappy love. However, in reality, this is far from the case. For different age groups, the reasons for suicide are very different. For example, in adolescents aged 16, unrequited love accounts for almost half of all causes of suicide, while in people over 25, this reason, on the contrary, is one of the rarest. It is at an early age that children dream of true love, this is the main reason for them not to live on. This is especially true for those adolescents for whom suicide is seen as a way to prove something to their loved ones, relatives, friends, loved one or parents. For some reason, at a young age, adolescents perceive the first feeling of love as the only possible one, not paying attention to the fact that in most cases the first love always ends in failure. From this, young people begin to believe that only suffering will await them in the future, although, in fact, the first love passes quickly enough. It mainly happens during the school period and the abundance of the following events, such as obtaining further education or looking for a job, push all thoughts about the past into the background.
Who is suicidal
Suicidal tendencies, as a rule, are those who undergo changes, the loss of their former social status or habitual living conditions. The highest suicide rate is found among such social groups as, for example, drug addicts, mental patients, demobilized officers, recent retirees, young soldiers, disabled people, chronic patients.
Apparently, this category of people thinks that after a suicide it will be easier for them than to be in the conditions where they lived. Among other things, the status of a person is important: married and married people, as a rule, commit such stupid things much less often, which cannot be said about those who had to go through the loss. In addition, when a comparison was made between the rate of suicide and the level of education, it was found that people who went to higher education were much less likely to commit suicide than those who received secondary education. According to experts, they have a great tendency to self-destructive thoughts and actions.
