One of the biggest growing problems in our society today is teen-age depression and suicide. These two things cannot be discussed without mentioning the other so they are one big problem. The main problem with this is that it is robbing our country of valuable resources, intelligent beings, families, friends, and possibly the future leaders of our country. Many people don't look at this situation in that kind of way. People just see it as a young person killing themselves because of silly problems in their life, but what they don't realize is all of the other important things we lose from this.

Teen suicide is one of the top three causes of deaths for adolescences. "In the last twenty-five years it has more than tripled" (O`Connor,1). No one can tell you the cause of suicide because with every case there is a different reason. We do...