Research
February 9th 2008 02:13
One of my jobs at work is researching social issues, from suicide to child abuse and everything in between. This side of things hasn’t got off the ground too much as far as I’m concerned, and I’m still working off data written up by the previous occupant of my chair.
Suicide seems to be one of the bigger issues we’re looking at, as well as the reasons why people commit suicide. These are many and varied, as you might imagine, and don’t make for positive reading. One of the reasons I don’t find listed very often in regard to the suicides of young men is that of being ‘dumped’ by their girlfriend. Yet, I know of three young men who committed suicide because of this. It seems illogical when you look at it from the outside because older people tend to think that there are plenty of fish in the sea, and being dumped by one person only means you’re likely to find someone else who suits you better. But the young man mind doesn’t seem to work like this.
Curiously it isn’t teenagers who use this as a reason for suicide but slightly older men in their early twenties. Maybe it’s just too much for their egos at that point. Again, looking at it objectively, it doesn’t seem likely, yet it happens.
Drugs are another area playing a part in suicides, though I don’t know anyone personally who’s gone that way. I don’t know many people on drugs, either, as it happens. Perhaps I’m just not in the scene.
Plainly some people don’t make it as far as drug treatment centers, and give up hope before they can get help. Perhaps they feel these centers are too expensive; I don’t know.
I find the research interesting, but also rather depressing. Fortunately I have other subjects of research that are a bit more on the positive side!
Suicide seems to be one of the bigger issues we’re looking at, as well as the reasons why people commit suicide. These are many and varied, as you might imagine, and don’t make for positive reading. One of the reasons I don’t find listed very often in regard to the suicides of young men is that of being ‘dumped’ by their girlfriend. Yet, I know of three young men who committed suicide because of this. It seems illogical when you look at it from the outside because older people tend to think that there are plenty of fish in the sea, and being dumped by one person only means you’re likely to find someone else who suits you better. But the young man mind doesn’t seem to work like this.
Curiously it isn’t teenagers who use this as a reason for suicide but slightly older men in their early twenties. Maybe it’s just too much for their egos at that point. Again, looking at it objectively, it doesn’t seem likely, yet it happens.
Drugs are another area playing a part in suicides, though I don’t know anyone personally who’s gone that way. I don’t know many people on drugs, either, as it happens. Perhaps I’m just not in the scene.
Plainly some people don’t make it as far as drug treatment centers, and give up hope before they can get help. Perhaps they feel these centers are too expensive; I don’t know.
I find the research interesting, but also rather depressing. Fortunately I have other subjects of research that are a bit more on the positive side!
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