Suicide is a major problem for teens. Suicide is characterized as the act or instance of willingly and deliberately taking one’s own life, in particular by a person with years of maturity and sound mind. Whether it’s slitting your wrists, hanging yourself, or even shooting yourself with a gun whatever your suicide may be. The majority of teenagers believe suicide is the solution to all their struggles and pain when they only make a life of misery and hurt for the people around them. Over the years suicide among teenagers has increased dramatically.

There are many causes for someone wanting to commit suicide. Depression is one of the most important causes. Depression is a mood disorder characterized by over whelming feelings of sadness, lack of interest in activities, and often times excessive guilt or feelings of worthlessness. Depression if left untreated can have dire consequences. If left untreated, depression can lead to suicide. Sometimes it is difficult to tell if someone has depression. Depression will most of the time go untreated because the individual doesn’t think there is anything seriously wrong with them. Depression is the leading cause of suicide among high school and college students. All types of depression are considered a serious illness. It seems like an odd comparison but it does demonstrate that it is not possible to take depression lightly. Depression is not something a person can cure and they wouldn’t even want to, if they could. Even when someone jokingly talks about suicide, it should be taken very seriously.

For most people with depression, medications and psychotherapy are effective. Medications may be recommended by your primary care doctor or psychiatrist to relieve symptoms. However, many people with depression also benefit from seeing a psychiatrist, psychologist or other professionals in the field of mental health. You may need a hospital stay if you have severe depression, or you may need to enroll in an outpatient treatment program before your symptoms.

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You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

• Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
• Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

• Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
• What topics do you think you’ll write about?
• Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
• If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.