Why do you think so many teens are self harming & unable to cope?

[Tutti Frutti]

More and more teens and young adults seem to be struggling with bullying, issues with mental health; self harm, eating disorders, and self esteem.

Why are so many teens struggling?

Are parents responsible?

What do you think has contributed to the increase in problems?

What do you think needs to be done to halt the proliferation?

[pasquale garonfolo]

Those teens that are self harming and are unable to cope, they may miss people, role models about them, that will tell them that self-harming is a perversion, that will prohibit certain perversions.

The practise of self-harming can be halted when you do tell the teenagers about the glowing dreams of healthier life.

Teens may resort to self-harming, to bullying, to eating disorders because they lack in their life the demanding and proud presence of parents and of teachers that will show them about the treasures and about the real beauty of simple life.

[Gerald]

sorry to be a pest but you are touching on subjects I feel extremely strong about I mentioned in your other question it's society it's not about people any more we are not looking at each other face to face anymore
we cannot see the real problems we are just not interacting all the materialistic things that are not real are guiding our lives children believe the computer it's real it's alive and because it's accurate it must be true
i don't know you if i stood face to face with you i know better but on here you could be a monster with horns
and what you say may frighten me this has to have massive effect on children's minds

[Psy]

Hormones,,. Also parents yes. The way we are raised forms the person that we become.

Good values and respect can make a big difference in the personality of a child.
From the time we are babies we look up to our parents and actually become them in the end, having various pieces of our parents in our mindsets and choices.

Being a bad example can raise a child being a bad example to someone else.

[Chacon]

I think tenns who are self harming and unable to deal with may be going to find a way to get someone's attention, after all, it is a effective but uncorrect way. Another reason is that they don't have enough courage to face the pressure of an approaching, so self-harm or eating disorders just a way for them to release their pressure.

If you ask me are their parents responsible, i can't exactly tell you. Because the pressure of life is coming from all aspects, may be he or she lost love just now, or they have resulting from the conflicts in marriage, the frustration in love. In conclusion, we can't blamed it on their parents.

Just as i said before, the pressure is coming from all aspects, many teens may has heavy pressure of life, and they are lack of communication, so there is no one can straighten him out. so.....

I think it is no way to put an end to those self-harm, but we can try to help them release their pressure at the right time, mean while, psychologist are an essential part of this process. Parents also should keep more attention on their children, find the problem and communicate with them, help them to deal with the difficuilties by the right way.

[hoovarted]

Spoiled!
The only thing that can be done is for them to take personal responsibility for themselves but that ain't happnin!
Once the branch is bent, so grows the tree.

[Dandelion Perfect]

Of course parents are responsible. So is TV and social media, and the culture at large. Consider this- even though at 2 or 3 years old a child is able to give something back to the family by fetching things for Mama. by 10 years old, that same child, with training, would be able to do all the cleaning tasks of the household. By 17 a young person is able to learn and apply valuable life skills. By 18, that person is eligible to vote and go to war.

In the REAL world that we live in now, that child is not allowed to play outside without supervision. Forbidden to drink out of the hose, watches too much tv, doesn't play outside. doesn't lift a finger in the house, is given the belief that a life of privilege is due to him. 12 years of school, then 4 years of college have to occur before that person is considered worthy of working at McDonald's. He can't move out of the house because of crippling debt, he can't move on with his life because of lack of funds to get started and a lack of saleable skills.

Parents are both working 40 hours or more a week. We live only to work. Where is the family time? Where is the relational interactions that help kids learn what they need to learn about keeping relationships clean? Where is the time for teaching and learning that comes with relating?

Our modern focus is on looks, sex and pleasure. It's infantile. And there is no place to hang pride in a situation like that.

[Determination]

Many factors=
parents
the media
the economy
the internet
video games
earlier physical development
medications

[JORGE N]

Probably because their parents were self harming unable to cope types themselves. And they got it from their parents who got it from their ancestors and this could be a trait that has been handed down from generation to generation. Now add all of that and a few new ways to be self harming and unable to cope and there you have it, a self harming and unable to cope kid with his or her own spin to it. And that will probably be enhanced and perfected and then handed down to the next generation to carry on the tradition.

[Annoyingvan476]

Basically teens have negligible attention from their parents. Schools have tremendous pressures for them too. These lead them to peer pressures on fashions, premature sex and celebrity and music all have led them to depression and alas they still don't have support system like grandparents. Adherance to some religious guidance could help a lot