In today’s society, teens are taking bullying and joking too far.

There are many teens that have mental complications like depression and anxiety and can’t help but think these negative things. Then we have other teens that are too insensitive to understand that the jokes they are making could actually affect someone’s well being.

From insensitive memes to degrading posts on social media, there are many ways that teens are expressing that suicide is a joke to them.

I think that it is wrong to joke about these kinds of things. If someone is seriously hurting and contemplating suicide, one insensitive joke could push them over the edge.

That’s what young people don’t understand anymore, that the words you say do affect others in ways that you may not see.

Depression is a serious issue with teens and worsens when the body goes through puberty at a fast rate. The hormones that the body starts to create can make feelings hard to understand.

When I hear someone making a joke about self-harm or suicide to be funny, I make sure to call them out and tell them that the things they are saying are wrong and  could mean the difference between life or death in another person’s life.

Because how would you feel knowing you were the reason someone took their life? That is a type of guilt that would be unbearable to live with.

Most people that are having suicidal thoughts do not talk to anyone about it because they are too uncomfortable to have that conversation with their parents or friends. This means that you never know what people are going through.

Joking about suicide can lead to unseen outcomes.

I am personally bothered when I hear people joking about suicide because I went through a phase where I considered ending my life. Being depressed is difficult because you have no motivation to do something about your situation. Being unsure of what is even going on with your emotions is unsettling, and someone making jokes about that is not cool.

You don’t want to talk about it with anyone because nobody else knows how to understand your emotions. You feel like a freak so you keep it to yourself.

Just take this as a reminder that other people have problems that you don’t know about and try to be more sensitive.

Suicide isn’t something to take lightly or joke about.