Suicide Awareness: Suicide Rate In The United States Reaches An Alarming State

Suicide rates in the United States drastically increased since 2014. Healthcare officials are now looking for preventive measures as they are trying to address the main cause.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report that the suicide rate in the United States is fast approaching epidemic levels. To make matters more alarming, children as young as ten already considered the option of taking their lives.

"The suicide rate for non-Hispanic white females aged 45-64 in 2014 (12.6 per 100,000) was 80% higher compared with 1999 (7.0) and was three to four times higher than for females in other racial and ethnic groups. Suicide rates for non-Hispanic black and Hispanic females also increased for those aged 45-64," CDC reported.

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A health watch agency, Breitbart released a statistic which reveals the fact that an alarming increase among suicide cases reached 24 percent. Two categories were identified in pointing out the worst case scenarios that greatly influenced the suicide rates.

A category that caused an alarming number in terms of the suicide poll was young girls. The age group includes girls as young as 10 -14. The numbers revealed that the suicide rate did not only inflate, but it triples over time. In 2014, 1.5 per 100,000 deaths was due to suicide. Since 1999, a total of 150 suicide-related deaths were tallied, which makes about 200 percent increase according to Tech Times.

"We are seeing younger and younger kids dying by suicide," Victor FornariI, New York director of the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at Zucker Hillside Hospital said. "I think it may be a reflection of access to social media, Internet and cyberbullying, and youth are hurried. They are being exposed to things sooner than they would have been."

As for the second category, it was revealed that men are also at risk of suicide. It was revealed that over the past 15 years, male suicide greatly increased in number by 62 percent. The statistics revealed that 18 out of 100,000 men die due to suicide.

Suicide-related deaths are rampantly increasing but experts are yet to discover what the root cause is. One of the greatest factors, however, is said to be depression and hopelessness. As the suicide rate increased all throughout the United States, healthcare practitioners are now looking for options such as providing support groups and suicide hotlines.