Person has four or more of the symptoms lasting for more than two weeks, that person could have a type of depression. Those people with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and clinical depression have much higher suicide rates than average (Tom Arsenault, 2).

             Teenagers display warning signs of suicide. The indications come in two ways. First exhibited are the early warning signs. These signs include difficulties in school, depression, drug abuse, sleep and eating disturbances, and a loss of interest in activities. Restlessness, feelings of failure, overreaction to criticism, overly self-critical, anger, and a preoccupation with death or Satan are also some signals teenagers contemplating suicide will.

             give ("Teen Suicide," 3).

             The other type of clues is a late warning sign. Talking about death, neglecting appearance, a feeling of hopelessness, a sudden improvement in personality, and giving away possessions are some of the typical late warning signs given by a suicidal teenager ("Teen Suicide," 4). Not everyone who portrays these symptoms is suicidal. In order to know if a person is really thinking about committing suicide, someone needs to ask them. Offering other ways to deal with suicidal persons' problems may save their life. Most teenagers contemplating suicide would not commit it, if they knew of another way.

             Out. By talking with someone who is suicidal, that person might see that there are people who love him or her.

             Despite the efforts of people to stop a teenager from committing suicide, some succeed. The statistics of considered and completed suicide are shocking. Ten percent of teenage boys admit that they have attempted suicide. Girls in their teens have a much higher percentage (eighteen percent), which will admit that they unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide. A teenager in 1990 was twice as likely to die from suicide than a teenager growing up in 1960. One of the most startling teenage suicide facts is that since 1961, there has been a.