Youth suicide
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| - | The '''Blue Whale Game''' is an Internet [[urban legend]] first mentioned in Russia in 2013. It is allegedly existing game which reportedly consists of a series of tasks assigned to players by administrators during a 50-day period, with the final challenge allegedly requiring the player to commit [[suicide]]. First it was run by teenagers as a joke, linked by them with real suicide cases, but got popular among teenagers in 2016 after a journalist with loose understanding of Internet culture published its article which caused [[moral panic]] in Russian society and (questionably) real victims. | ||
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| - | The term "Blue Whale" comes from the phenomenon of [[beached whale]]s, which is likened to suicide. While the phenomenon has received significant media attention, very little reliable evidence is available for either the game's existence or its role in any of several well published [[Youth suicide|child and teenage suicides]] or acts of [[self-harm]]. There have been photos of self-cutting wounds shared on social media alongside the game's [[hashtag]]s. | ||
| + | '''Youth suicide''' is when a young person, generally categorized as someone below age 21, deliberately [[suicide|ends their own life]]. Rates of attempted and completed youth [[suicide]] in [[Western societies]] and other countries are high. Youth suicide attempts are more common among girls, but adolescent males are the ones who usually carry out suicide. | ||
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| - | * [[Choking game]] | + | *[[Suicide among LGBT youth]] |
| - | * [[Cyberbullying]] | + | *[[Depression in childhood and adolescence]] |
| - | * [[Peer pressure]] | + | |
| - | * [[Social Darwinism]] | + | |
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Youth suicide is when a young person, generally categorized as someone below age 21, deliberately ends their own life. Rates of attempted and completed youth suicide in Western societies and other countries are high. Youth suicide attempts are more common among girls, but adolescent males are the ones who usually carry out suicide.
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