Suicide And Indians

Patience levels of young and old people In Indian society have been decreasing and have been becoming the cause of suicides in society. Mental health concerns are advancing at unimaginable paces. The childlike and gullible minds think that there is only one resort to all their problems: Suicide.

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Mental disorders, including depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, and substance abuse risk factors.

The increasing influence of the western culture, their lifestyles, dietary habits, etc is also a large factor of the cause of suicides. About 8,00,000 people commit suicide every year among which 1,35,000 are from India which contributes about 17% of the total, which honestly is a very big chunk.

Another major cause of suicide is the pressure on Indian students to be the BEST in every field. To go beyond their physical, mental and social capabilities, always do out of the box things to become famous, gain respect and feel loved by society. The Indian society’s constant demand to have kids with the best potentials is increasing pressure in the minds of The Young generation. A classic example of this is the Common Aptitude Test exam for entrance into top MBA colleges, even though students who scored more than 99% have not gotten an entry into the colleges because of their low verbal abilities or lack of interest in communication. The nature of the Indian society forces its students to go beyond their limits which is a huge responsibility as well as a cause of major distress in the minds of the adolescents. The reservation for the lower backward classes also is a threat admission thus causes many problems and ultimately upsets even the most brainy kids.

A few other causes of suicides in society are problems at the emotional level, be it problems of relationships or legal parental issues or internal conflicts. Substance abuse is also increasing in society becoming a major cause of suicides. History of sexual or physical abuse or being the victim of bullying or maybe being unknown to your sexual orientation are another few reasons which act as the cause of suicides. Most often, suicidal thoughts are the result of feeling like you can't cope when you're faced with what seems to be an overwhelming life situation. If you don't have hope for the future, you may mistakenly think suicide is a solution. You may experience a sort of tunnel vision, wherein the middle of a crisis you believe suicide is the only way out.

A few symptoms to recognize the people with suicidal thoughts are
• Talking about taking their own life or talking about suicides
• Stocking things that could be used to take their own life like guns or pills.
• Withdrawing from social contact
• Having constant mood swings
• Being preoccupied with the thoughts of violence, death and dying.

A RAY OF HOPE
Suicide prevention lines and telephone numbers have become a Ray of hope in the lives of people going through such feelings, anyone feeling low or worthless or feeling any kind of negative emotions can contact any of those hotlines to seek help at a regular basis another way to prevent suicides and to be e in a better and healthier mental health condition is to talk about your problems, to open up and to share your emotions. There are many people who are not comfortable to share their emotions with people near and dear because they feel that they have been judged for having negative emotions does the best option for such people to consult Specialists like a psychologist who gives talk therapy or psychiatrist who help treat it with medications. There is not a single soul on this earth that has never felt low, just that some people can and deal with their emotions in a much better way than the others.

There is nothing like NO solution to a problem, sometimes solutions take time but they will come eventually. I would like to conclude by saying Keep your Face to the sunshine so that you cannot see the shadow.