In Australia suicide is the major cause of death under the age of twenty-four. The connection is very direct.
Youngsters grow up in a world of passive input.
They spend a great deal of time on the internet. Then there is the time spent listening to pop music. As a result youngsters never develop any identity for themselves as 'people who can take charge of their own lives'. In short, they never practise thinking. For clothes and general behaviour they go along with the peer group or gang.