Why
will one commit a suicide? Is suicide really the only choice? Are we to blame
suicide on depression? Or are there other instrumental causes to the deadly
choice? All these questions are those that i keep brooding about as i attempt
to see if there is a causal relationship between the two.
Many
suicide have occurred which i’ve been able to experience but the one that
caught my attention was the one that happened when i was in part 2 to a 16 –
year old lady, a fresher in my school, Obafemi Awolowo University, microbiology
whom the release of her first 3 semester result were instrumental to her
suicidal action...
A
lady, by the virtue of her profile picture, was seen to have been brought up
well in a religious way, Christianity to be precise which i presume that the
religion rebuked any form of suicide owing it to the fact that they don’t own
it( their life) and a ticket to hell is certain to any perpetrator of the act,
still found herself caught in the web of the same act. Well, tried to do a
little research about her but found that she wasn’t that social, and i couldn’t
get some facts needed to add to my repertoire of knowledge but concluded in
using inductive reasoning
Probably
the 2nd or 3rd or other flights apart from 1st
flight (which is merit list) took her in through road one to the prestigious
university, she have put in for something higher, like a course in the health sciences
but her score didn’t merit a spot in the faculty and she was handed a sit in
the department of microbiology.
Though
parental hopes or expectations were high in seeing their child become a
successful Nurse or Doctor and so on but still felt like going on with
microbiology, seeing her first 3 results in her illustrious life as an
undergraduate shattered her optimism and she felt like, “i’ve failed my
parent”. Not knowing what she could
expect from the parent or what her parent could say, probably the first child
entering university, knowing how university education is highly dignified in
Nigeria, felt like the nearest option for her is taking a route which her
religion highly rebuke (suicide).
The
aforesaid story motivated me into writing a proposal on suicidal ideation
during my 1st semester in my last part as an undergraduate, in which
i looked on how parental expectations and academic performance could serve as
determining factors of suicidal ideation which i feel its researchable in lieu
of suicide( i sha wont research on the deads).
I’d be delving into the part as a student in coping with suicidal
ideation and YOU in the outside world.
Well,
at one point in life, we’ve been depressed which might consequentially lead to
having suicidal ideation and the concept of suicide is process in which
depression is a causative factor....
this simply means before suicide could happen, there must be a causative
factor , depression, then thinking about suicide which is suicidal ideation,
then making some attempts to commit suicide but not courageous enough act upon
and later committing the act.
Depression----------->suicidal
ideation------------> suicidal attempts------------->suicide
Many
things can implicated for this behaviour like, parental expectation like i
stated earlier, academic performance, academic stress, mental health,
depression, at the most mundane factor of it all, loneliness, thought of been
rejected or isolated. We might want to
know some symptoms to suicide which might include too much consumption of
alcohol or drug to ameliorate the unfascinating situation, feeling hopeless, threatening
to hurt him/herself, looking for ways to suicide e.g. seeking access to pills,
weapons, or other means, deliberately hurting him/herself, Talking or writing
about death, dying or suicide, Acting recklessly or engaging in risky
activities, seemingly without thinking Withdrawing from friends, family or society,
No reason for living, no sense of purpose in life e.t.c.
There
are ways to ameliorate the situation, you must be aware of yourself, your
present situation, physical and mental status, your emotional glitch, your
present state of mind, associating yourself with people, communicate your
present predisposition, i believe there would be no failure when you are
actually doing what you love doing, parent should probably give liberty to
children to do what they want to do and mitigate their expectations, make
parent to child relationship so interesting that child can really relate with
them, to once in a while check up their ward in school to see the other life of
them they wouldn’t want others to know, intimating people with the symptoms of
suicide so as to keep them cognisant of any victim near them, associating
themselves to victims of depression or suicidal attempts, giving them
motivation to mitigate their pessimism, not all is ‘devil’s work’ regarding the
stereotypical notion we give the suicide victims, some people’s mental state
have crossed the line of normality, referring them to the appropriate quota
could be effective in treating them, a person facing some sort of challenges
like rape assault shouldn’t be stigmatized instead should be embraced with open
arm, though it might not happen to us but let the victim know he or she isn’t
alone...
Depression
kills but a hasty move could help victims shift from having suicidal ideation
not to talk of the rest to a good reason to leave and a good perspective about
life...
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