Social diagnosis on suicidal behaviors phenomena in teenagers and young people from the city of Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico

Abstract

Suicide is the second cause of death in the world on people between the ages of 15 to 29. Every year in Mexico six thousand people take their lives; in Chihuahua 6.48 out of every one hundred thousand people commit suicide, even though the national average is 5.1. In Hidalgo del Parral the suicidal behaviors are registered since the age of 11; the community remains silent or avoids the issue. Based on that, this qualitative research has the purpose of understanding the internal and external factors which determine the suicidal behaviors in the youngest, through the psychoanalysis sight of Freud and Butler, with methods like phenomenology and hermeneutics, and techniques of in-depth interview and informal chat. The findings show that the underlying causes belong to structural, institutional, community and family nature, which set the moral values and responsibilities to teenagers and young people, without determining or establishing their human rights (Abduca, 2012). The government and the institutions, far from complying with their social role, violate the person’s integrity, enhancing the suicidal risk. Therefore, suicide is caused by a reaction rather than a decision (Martínez, 2017). Trying to understand a society just by its achievements is a mistake, since taking a look at their victims is also a must (Ibid).