Teen Suicide The teenage years are a period of turmoil for just about everyone. Young adolescents are learning new social roles, developing new relationships, getting used to changes in ones body, and making decisions about ones future. Each year thousands of teenagers commit suicide. In the book The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caufield is a young man suffering through the pain of change just like many teenagers are today. Holden is depressed and “Depression …showed first 75 words of 1677 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1677 total…suicidal tendencies can be treated. In conclusion, more and more, teenagers seem to be turning to suicide as a desperate solution to insoluble problems and feelings. “Knowing what to look for can help us identify kids at risk or becoming suicidal, instead of treating young people after they are already suicidal or after they have attempted suicide. We need to dispel the notion that this behavior is an ordinary part of adolescence.” David Rosen, MD.