The number of adults committing suicide because of bullying, harassment and violence is unknown, but my guess is that bullying is a factor in a significant number of these 5000 suicides. In October 1999, the government reported that the number of young males who commit suicide each year in the UK had doubled over the last ten years. One of the problems of young male suicide identified was men's reluctance to confide their problems in others, even their peers. Common causes cited include bullying, abuse, poverty, homelessness, and alcohol abuse. However, I believe there is one cause of suicide which has until now been overlooked.
People kill themselves for a variety of reasons.
Sometimes drugs and alcohol are a factor, as are social factors, poverty, deprivation, mental illness, etc. To see the differences between mental illness and psychiatric injury, click here . Bullying, harassment and abuse cause injury to health, which is often diagnosed as stress and anxiety but may also include depression. The page injury to health tells you how negative stress injures your health, including the sequence of events that precedes suicide. Suicide can also result from overwork, which the Japanese call karoshi .