rise in young male suicides

[legend758duo]

there appears to be a rise in young men committing suicide .
this was shown to extreme in northern ireland where 3 young boys have hung themseklves in three weeks.
they come from a small village with only a population of 600.
though on the whole male suicides are on the rise all over the uk.
does society put too much pressure on young kids to succeed or is a lot of it down to peer pressure?
ive read that the boys were all members of a chat site and theres a suspicion theyve done this for a sort of martyrdom.
2 of the lads hung themselves from the same lamppost too.
sad state of affairs.

[MrBen5]

Hmmm, i dont hate anyone. I have no hate in me whatsoever. I apologise if i seem to come across like that.
I am just giving my opinion.
Its not that they hate everything when someone says something that you dont agree with legend.
I know you have strong feelings on your posts,but you should accept people are different and dont all agree with you.
Now dont go doing anything stupid just because i am not your favourite person...

[Reverandfunk]

Must have been mentally unstable in my opinion. Martyrdom? To who? Other mentally unbalanced teenagers?

[warpig3]

Thank you for the link legend. That is a very strange occurance. I know that suicide among young men is increasing all the time and particulary in N I but these young men don't fit the 'norm' (I use that term very loosely), in that they all attended the same school and I presume were of similar ages, hence I can understand why martyrdom and the websites have been mentioned. Whatever the cause, it is extremely sad and a tragic waste of lives.

[Octavius]

In your question you ask whether society puts too much pressure on young kids or whether it is peer pressure that drives some of them to suicide.

The most straight-forward answer seems to be a rise in mental health problems. Only today we hear of a report that claims 1 in 10 children has a mental health issue that will affect them in their lives. In some cases, without specific help, this will inevitably lead to suicide.

I believe that people who commit suicide, and I have known a few � although I�d like to think that was not a factor � are taking that last step towards a decision that they are already capable of. Some people can and some people can�t, however some people are driven to it through enforced circumstances such as a breakdown, abuse or bullying, and this identifies a sense of helplessness, not necessarily pressure. Mental health issues which drive someone to suicide is of course a sorry state of affairs, but so is the aftermath and the feelings, faux culpability and sense of compunction that close friends and relatives are left to deal with.

[bobtheturkey]

if they done it on the basis of a chatroom then they were more likely to be mentally ill than any peer pressure

[sexiruskiee]

What did I do wrong?