92 % of Students Commit Themselves In Studies, Rest Commit Suicide
Depression due to excessive expectations from the parents and society is the key pressure that puts today’s students, whether school or college into severe stress. While most of them adapt, why some of them aren’t able to?
The fact is, every hour, one student commits suicide in India according to a National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data. The year’s number is the highest in the decade: over 10,000 suicides.
Of the 81,758 students who committed suicide from January 1, 2009, to December 31, 2018, 57% killed themselves in the past five years, including 10,159 in 2018, overall India saw 1.3 lakhs suicides in 2018, of which students made up 8%, almost the same as those involved in the farming sector.
Students’ deaths result from poor relationships with parents, excessive expectations, the feeling of being unwanted, poor understanding of their peer/romantic relationships say, experts. These result in an impulsive decision or a long thought-out deliberation.
We may think that the students who have a weak background and who are poor in studies are the ones who commit suicides, but it is another way around. Prestigious institutions and colleges are witnessing a high rate of suicides. Their mindset which has been trained to believe that marks matter more then lives makes them feel anxious and nervous and they commit these kinds of mistakes.
What we can do?
We can start teaching children that our life is more valued than our ranks, we can start implementing separate time every day for stress reliving in colleges (such as doing hobbies, playing sports) likewise we can try to reduce the suicide rates in our country.
We should spread awareness about this and should react, immediately. Because this is the plight of the next generation, who are the building blocks of the World.