Nepal, July 8 -- The rising rate of teenage suicide has become one of the most pressing public health crises of our time. In Nepal alone, the fiscal year 2023-24 recorded 7,223 suicide cases, an average of 20 lives lost every single day. Alarmingly, 15.4% of those who took their own lives were students, exposing a mental health emergency among the nation's youth.

These are not merely lost lives; they represent deeper, systemic failures. Each case reflects the weight of unfulfilled dreams, fractured relationships, cultural dislocation, and mounting academic pressure that many adolescents are unable to withstand. This raises a critical question: Is the root cause simply failure? Or are we confronting a deeper issue, the erosion of emotiona...