CAUSE EFFECT

-Experience of personal loss.

- Can produce depression so as to cause one
-Loss of job, the loss of
to despair of living.
social standing in
community, loss of boyfriend
or girlfriend, etc.
-There are no challenges for -Teenagers think that if there are no
teenagers because challenges, life is not worth living and not
everything comes too easily meaningful.
TEENAGE
SUICIDE: -The Syndrome of
ITS -When somethings comes destroys their
Happiness and Success.
CAUSES happiness, it oftentimes destroys them.
-Television commercials
AND CURE -They not prepared to cope with the negative
portray young people as
carefree, happy, and aspect life because of their conception of
successful. happiness.

-Early in fife a young person

-They feel that life is not happy and boring
is under pressure and live in
with the entertainments.
the fast lane.

-Face the social pressure, ambition,

-Broken homes and
boredom, trauma of staying home, having
unconcerned parents.
something exciting to do, and to be "fulfilled."

-Parents working outside, the

home and house was empty -Children suffer from lack of security.
and leaving the child alone1 for
-They are lonely, bored and scared.
lengthy periods of time.
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THEME: SOCIAL ISSUES

TOPIC: TEENAGE SUICIDE: ITS CAUSES AND CURE

READING STRATEGIES: CAUSE AND EFFECT