Liliana Gonzalez

English 8th period

05-26-29

​ ​Many people in the united states suffer from mental illness and they deserve to have more

access to mental health resources. If people had more access resources it would lower suicide

rates. The issues with my topic currently is that people who are struggling with any mental

illness do not get any help. When people don’t get help they go to ending their life and then

other people get affected and it just turns to a big thing. How people are addressing this issue is

that they are trying to convince other people to get help and offering their support. Since people

do not have enough resources they end up to committing suicide.

People who are struggling with any mental illness do not get any type of help which

leads them to commit suicide. In an article about the Columbine school shooting it was stating

that “​In the weeks and months following the April 20, 1999, Columbine High School shooting, a

slain student's mother died by suicide. So did a student whose best friend was killed. At the

time, there was little available in the way of formalized counseling for survivors. Also, people

avoided getting help because they thought it seemed weak and shameful, experts say. When

the students received little to no counseling it lead them to have bad mental health and led to

them committing or attempting suicide because they didn’t get help or have the resources. ​In

the article of the school shooting it states that “​Jeremy Richman was the father of a child killed

in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Richman was found dead by apparent

suicide in Newtown, Connecticut, police confirmed. ​His death came after the apparent suicide

deaths of two other shooting survivors earlier this month, a current and former student who both

survived the February 14, 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in

Florida​”. This means that after his death two more people have commited suicide because of
the tragic event and they didn’t get help. In the end people end up committing or attempting

suicide because either they do not get help or they do not have the resources. Sometimes when

they see people committing suicide they think it’s okay and that maybe their pain will go away

too.

How this issue has changed over time is that suicide has been more common in the past

few years, it has been one of the top common deaths. It has been consistent because people

are not getting help and they see other people ending their life and think they want their pain to

go away so they go to suicide. Lately there has been more tragic events than years before and

it is getting more common these days and most of these suicides are from teenagers since a lot

goes on those years. Teenagers feel like their pain can’t go away so they go to suicide most of

the time or they get help but some teenagers do not have the resources or to scared to ask for

help. Suicide has been an issue in the past years. It has been more common in the past recent

years. A lot of people have not been getting help when it comes to their mental state. People go

to suicide and then other people do it too and it keeps going around and now suicides have

been more common. Lately in the past 50 years suicide has been the top 5 reasons of death.

Suicide is more common in the past years and people are NOT getting help and because of that

they end up committing suicide and it affects so many people beside themselves.​ ​This source

builds my understanding of this issue is that it shows that how teens don’t get help so they end

up committing suicide and then once people see then they think it’s ok and it end up being a big

thing.

Many people don’t care if they get help when it comes to their mental state, they either

refuse it or don’t care if they get help. There are many reasons of why people refuse treatment

and in this article it states the reasons of “​A person may refuse to accept mental health

treatment for many reasons – he may believe it indicates he is a failure; it may make him feel
more vulnerable and that it is intrusive; he may be concerned about finances in paying for

treatment or privacy issues and fear of stigma if friends or co-workers find out; he may believe

that treatment is not effective, at least not for him; he may fear becoming dependent on

medications or dread the side effects he has heard rumors of; he may be concerned that

treatment such as talk therapy may raise up strong emotions that he fears having to deal with”.

This states that there are so many reasons and sometimes it is not their fault but it could lead to

suicide. But people sometimes don’t know where to start to get help and don’t know where to

begin. Sometimes people get ashamed of having to get help.

In the end, people need to get help and be able to have access to mental health

resources. There are many reasons of why people commit suicide and it is mostly cause they do

not get help when they need it, like for example when other people commit suicide other people

see that they could end their pain or in pain because of the person who committed suicide and

so then they think it’s okay to do it also. Sometimes people don’t get help because of financial

issues or either they don’t know where to get it or they don’t want to feel ashamed to have to get

help. But some people really just do not have any resources to get it and it leads to either

committing or attempting suicide and it is a big deal since suicide is being the most top reasons

of death in the recent years. But people just can’t get help for many reasons but it’s usually

cause they don’t have many resources and they need more resources so the suicide rate can

go down.