Teen Suicides: Finding a Solution in Martial Arts

Teen Suicides: Finding a Solution in Martial Arts

Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Center

220 Newbury St

Peabody MA 01960

Phone: (978) 535-7878

Email: info@brucemccorrys.com

Web: www.brucemccorrys.com

For most of us, suicide is a solution that cannot even be thought about, however harsh might be the problems faced in life. Therefore, it is most disturbing to note that 3041 young people between 9^th and 12^th grades attempt to kill themselves every single day in the country. Sadly but not surprisingly, teen suicides remain the second major factor for death among teens and young adults aged between 12 to 24 years of age according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. This article explores why teen suicides are an increasingly damaging menace, and how alternate systems like martial arts can be effectively used to prevent teen suicides.

Causes for Teen Suicides: Some Highlights

While there are a diverse number of reasons that can be said to trigger suicidal thoughts among children and teens, the following can be highlighted as some key factors:

• Teens and young adults might find it hard to fit in among their same-aged peers for any number of reasons, ranging from body image issues like obesity, different sexual preferences and racial and class-based distinctiveness.

• Another major cause for teen suicides is the stress created by academic pressure in school or college, as well as unhealthy parental expectations, and sometimes, unfulfilled academic and career ambitions.

• Bullying is a major trigger that leads to depression and suicide, especially in the young teens who find it hard to manage classroom menaces like harassment and peer-pressure. Though only closely related, sexual harassment, drug abuse and assault also are major causes for teens and young adults to develop suicidal thoughts.

• Often, the inability to manage an emotional challenge like a broken relationship, an academic or personal failure results in suicidal thoughts.

Fighting Back: Martial Arts for Emotional Health

If there is a solution that can touch the root cause of the problem and heal the issue of suicidal tendency among teens, it is martial arts:

• Martial arts can generally teach teenagers to embrace their true selves, thus helping them to fit in better with their peers while being their true selves.

• Martial arts is a great booster of study skills. It improves memory, retention, recalling and calculating skills, all of which will come handy in improving study skills. Further, martial arts provides the emotional strength to tide over unnecessary stress caused by adult expectations or thwarted ambitions.

• Martial arts is a great way to instill courage, confidence, strength and presence of mind in children and teenagers. Martial arts being a great self-defense, its learners rarely feel the need to be threatened by bullying or peer pressure.

• Most importantly, martial arts teaches children and teenagers the emotional stability and perseverance needed to face any unexpected challenge unfazed. Most teen suicides are the product of either one unpredictable moment of vulnerability, or the result of slowly building depression. Martial arts give the courage to fight both of these.

      Martial art lessons for children and teens at Bruce McCorry’s Academy (Peabody, MA) focuse in building core emotional strength in the learners, so that they can bravely face the challenges that would meet them in daily life. To make your kids mentally and emotionally strong individuals who do not fall prey to suicidal tendencies, substance abuse or similar destructive behaviors to which they might be prone during teenage, choose Bruce McCorry’s Martial Arts

Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Center

220 Newbury St

Peabody MA 01960

Phone: (978) 535-7878

Email: info@brucemccorrys.com

Web: www.brucemccorrys.com