Psychiatric Times

ARYAA NAIK / TNN / Jun 1, 2006, 19:45 IST

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Parvati Nene, 21 a commerce student recently hung herself for reasons unknown to her friends and family.

Parvati Nene, 21 a commerce student recently hung herself for reasons unknown to her friends and family.
Parvati Nene, 21 a commerce student recently hung herself for reasons unknown to her friends and family leaving behind only melancholy in the hearts of those who cared for her.
Parvati is not the only one. ACP Crime Sanjay Jadhav admits to the increasing number of suicides cases among youngsters.
He says, "There are quite a few cases of youngsters committing suicide that come in. Even though the parents of the victim don't give reasons for the act committed or deny a suicide note been left behind, the reasons are quite apparent. Most of the suicide cases among youngsters happen due to overburden of studies, pressure from the parents or teen love."

Student Counsellor Suchitra Date says that there are in fact children as young as 13 who are driven to commit suicide.
The reason behind this, she says is lack of communication between the child and their parents. "Parents must communicate with their children openly.
A father must give his child at least half an hour everyday. He can start of with reading a book to his child and as the grows older it can turn into dinner time conversation.

This can develop a bond between them which is absolutely necessary,"says she. "It is important that the children can confide in their parents, this will prevent a large number of teenagers from feeling depressed and frustrated,"she adds.
Incidents like somebody slitting his wrists because he failed to submit an admission form on time or someone consuming copious amounts of sleeping pills because she had a fight with her mother, have become alarmingly common.
Why do these youngsters have such a strong urge to put an end to their existence when they have their whole life ahead of them?
Acute frustration, depression and tendencies of self harm are very evident in the youth today. But, what is even more disturbing is that inspite of parents being aware of their child's mental unstability they refuse to take the child even to a psychologist fearing the opinions of the society around them.
Dr Hemant Chandorkar says, "The transition period of childhood to adulthood is very important in a person's life. This period shapes up his personality, emotional responses.
It is very important that he feels emotionally secure either through family or friends."

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