Young people 'feel they have nothing to live for'
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almost a third of long-term unemployed young people have contemplated taking their own lives.
Thousands wake up believing that life is not worth living, after struggling for years on the dole
long-term unemployed young people were more than twice as likely as their peers to have been prescribed anti-depressants.
One in three (32%) had contemplated suicide, while one in four (24%) had self-harmed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25559089
So sad and wrong, and we are letting thousands of foreigners into the country to start work, how can this make sense?
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Typical head-burying. I wasn't surveyed but I can relate to it all!
Plus I thought everybody was saying the immigrants aren't coming for jobs but for benefits
Typical surveys though. Just like you see on TV adverts, 75% of 125 people surveyed agreed with it.
Just news from the shite tabloids.
They will also leave out questions and answers what will show there were many other factors involved
I know that you know that but try telling them that
Plus if this report is true they will be unemployed so will all top themselves by next year anyway
You're a good man who looks after your family and you have great strength, i'm sorry you have thought about ending it.
Sad times!
there are many time where i think about suicide, what is point carrying on with my existence, i haven't attempted it yet but the feelings are very strong, have been self harming alot over these past years
I am also under alot of stress at home, i help my father look after my mother who has bipolar so when she on one of her depressive cycles it is alot to cope with
If the media stops vilifying them, Government stop pitching policies designed for divide and rule between young people and everyone else plus people drop the stigma against young people, then attitudes may change.
There's just no 'equaliser' anymore. The liquidity has been hoovered up and I'm not quite sure by who.
I am involved in recruitment too,& I also see this happening. My line of work ain't glam but some recruitment drives are better than others. As a general rule Id say E Europeans tend to turn up for interviews,the British candidates are more unreliable.
Edit: actually Id say v young British candidates are more reliable,its the older candidates (25+) that piss around a bit.
Yes but you don't really realize that until you are way into your twenties and it's starting to be over. Or at least i didn't.
If it were 30, I'd get your point, 3000 is a lot of people to be fair
2,161 people were interviewed. That sample size is easily large enough to be representative of the population.
it isn't always enough
But they could have asked another 100 questions and given other reasons to why they felt like that but only chose to use one tiny bit of info they could even have asked to get that answer
Interviewer> Well aside from splitting up with you partner your dog dying and finding out your mum has cancer does the fact you don't have a job ever get you down.
Young Person> Well yes I guess so
Bang they have the answer they want