Teenage suicides (11-15 years old) have their own characteristics that distinguish them from suicides at other ages. Teenage suicide is superimposed on the crisis nature of this stage of ontogenesis and is determined by the psychological characteristics of adolescents. Psychology has accumulated a large amount of knowledge about adolescence and the specifics of adolescent psychology. Let us dwell on the most significant of them in the context of teenage suicide. First of all, there are age-related characteristics of adolescents that significantly influence the nature of suicidal behavior. These features can be divided into several blocks: Cognitive features of adolescents: a) Low ability to forecast and predict the consequences of their actions due to lack of life experience and the necessary knowledge. Teenagers do not always correctly assess risks, are able to weigh different behavioral options and make responsible decisions. Thus, unsafe behavior of teenagers or various “games with death” may not be the result of evil intentions, but the result of bad decisions. b) Mythologizing the topic of life and death. Adolescents often have rather fragmented or distorted ideas about life and death. This topic is often accompanied by a lot of speculation and prejudice. Distorted ideas about death push teenagers to take rash steps. c) A system of attitudes for self-justification. To explain and justify their behavior, adolescents often use various vivid metaphors and essentially manipulative statements that supposedly justify suicidal behavior. d) Fatalism - a division into black and white. Emotional characteristics of adolescents. Instability of emotional processes. Unlike adults, teenagers' emotions are more labile; they can change dramatically for fairly weak reasons. This can lead to sudden mood swings from a manic state to a depressive state. Emotional reactions are characterized by impulsiveness, excitability and fatigue. The causes of emotional instability can be very different. From changes in a teenager’s self-esteem, which is very sensitive to external evaluation. To physiological reasons associated with hormonal imbalance in the body and, for example, deficiency of happiness hormones. Behavioral characteristics. High dependence on the current social environment. Adolescents, like no other age group, depend on the behavior of the reference group to which they are oriented. In this regard, adolescents have a very developed ability to imitate. They feel the group very well and adapt to it, if desired. As various authors note, suicidal behavior in adolescents indicates social maladjustment of the individual. Suicide as a behavior is a consequence of a teenager’s non-normative position in his relevant social group. For a teenager, there is a microsocial conflict with the people around him. The teenager himself cannot receive the attention and support he needs from the social group. And the group, in turn, does not accept and pushes the teenager away. In this regard, it is fashionable to highlight a number of characteristic features of teenage suicide. These features are not always present and of course there are exceptions to this rule. But in most typical cases, teenage suicide is characterized by: Demonstrative nature. Teenage suicides can be true and aimed at taking one’s own life. But much more often, teenagers use suicide to try to draw attention to their problems. The suicide attempts of adolescents themselves are not aimed at taking their own lives. But this does not make them any less dangerous. The demonstrative nature of teenage suicides is very much affected by the specifics of psychological work with them. Manifested nature. Due to adolescents’ focus on external attention and evaluation, their suicidal thoughts are most often spoken. They want to discuss their pain and their decision to end their life. It's important to them.