The suicide causes among young people nationwide have increased dramatically in recent years. Teenage suicide and suicidal attempts are usually set off by a particular incident. Psychologists call it the trigger event. Some examples of an event that can cause a suicidal event is a parent's death, divorce, a break up with a boyfriend/girlfriend,moving to a city, failure in sports, a disappointment of anything that had been particularly hoped for. Sometimes the trigger event is just the latest in a serious of stressful events. If too many stressful events takes place in too short of a time, our defenses are weakened and our resources depleted so we just do what's easier for us. Stress puts a strain on our resources and when we make to many adjusting and adapting to various events our system overloads and fails.
Some examples of stressful events are death of a family member, breakup with a friend, personal injury, getting pregnant, starting a new school, vacations, change in financial state, but there are many stressful events. A trigger event may also set off a sense of depression. However, not all suicidal people are depressed, and most depressed people never consider suicide. Drugs and alcohol are also reasons a teenager can commit suicide. Usually the reason why teenagers do drugs and alcohol is because they have a problem and usually they don't know how to cope with it, so they drink and do drugs to forget about it. After a while the teen will get tired of the drinking and doing drugs that they will just kill themselves, that makes them think that after they die their problem will go away. Studies have found that some people who are depressed have high levels of certain brain chemicals. Other studies have shown that aggressive and impulsive people who violent suicide attempts have reduced amounts of serotonin, a key brain chemical.