Sunday, March 16, 2014

Entry # 11 - March 16 2014

Canadian hospitals stretched as self-harming teens seek help

Oscar Qi
March 16 2014
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian-hospitals-stretched-as-self-harming-teens-seek-help-1.2574316


Emergency rooms across the country are producing alarming statistics on teens being hospitalized for self-inflicted wounds and suicidal thoughts.
A mental health service found out that the number of teenagers in the hospital who have suicidal thoughts and self-inflict injures has grown significantly. Dr. Hazen says, “We're seeing twice as many kids as we were 10 years ago”. Dr. Hazen mentioned that the kids who hurt themselves usually from cutting themselves with knife or anything that’s sharp and burn themselves for no good reason. Self- inflict injure could be caused by depression and anxiety. In 2009-13, the number of the kids who hurt themselves and shows up in the emergency rises significantly. Many factors can make Kids and teenagers to hurt themselves, like experience a break up, a death or a poor grade. The Doctors says about this situation “almost a fad to cut now”.

 

In my opinion, the teenagers are always feeling more stressed due to the fact that they are in adolescence. When people are in adolescence, they can’t really control themselves and they will always need to find something to vent their emotions and feelings. When they feel rock music and gaming isn’t strong enough, they will look for something like drugs and self- injuring. I think the solution of this is to teach the teenagers and the kids to control their feelings and mood. Sometimes they also hurt the people they love and the people who have nothing to do with the deal they involved in.

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