How Does Bullying Promote Suicide?

People often use the phrase “sticks and stones may brake my bones but words will never hurt me” this phrase is not true, in fact words not only destroy people mentally but it destroys lives and sometimes ends them. Bullying leads to suicide. Suicide is a death by a self-inflicted injury under circumstances in which the individual intended or should have reasonably expected that this injury would result in his or her death. Bullying is the ongoing physical or emotional victimization of a person by another person or a group of people. A new type of bullying is emerging which is known as cyber bullying. According to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center cyber bullying is a new way of communication through social media and texting to harass and cause emotional harm to their victims.
A major problem among youth in the US  is suicide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suicide is the third leading cause of death for youth ages 12– 18 reported being bullied (Dinkes, Kemp, & Baum, 2009). Of these students 21 percent said to be bullied once or twice a month, 10 percent said to be once or twice a week, 7 percent said to be bullied daily and nearly 9 percent said to be physically injured as a result of bullying. Both victims and perpetrators of bullying are at a high risk of suicide, children who are both victims and perpetrators are at the highest risk according to (Kim & Leventhal, 2008; Hay & Meldrum, 2010; Kaminski & Fang, 2009). As you can see bullying does more than what the eye can see. It’s time to stand up and stop bullying  because not only does it destroy lives but it causes more to be lost rather than saved.