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Kids feel they can’t turn to anyone for help because whoever they turn to, they feel they will be judged. Kids already are judged by everything else they do, and they are very afraid to be thought of as really deviational by those they talk to. And it crazy. I think the amount of judgment that goes on in our world is stupid. People don’t actually THINK about how it might affect others. I know its true for me and not just me because i’ve heard it from quite a few other kids and adults.
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Name : Nina, Gender : F, Religion : Atheist, Age : 15, City : auckland, State : NA, Country : New Zealand,i dont believe that depression is an ilness.. i think that was something thought up by antidepressent drug manufacturers.. i was once a ‘depressed teen’ on the verge of suicide.. im over it now.. with no help from any drugs.. it wasnt some ‘chemical brain messup’ it was to do with emotions and how i was treated.. when you get treated badly enough.. regularly enough.. youre going to get depressed.. it happens.. but hopefully.. you like i did.. get over it.
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Name : Kim, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 17, City : Houston, State : TX, Country : United States, Occupation : Secretary, Social class : Middle class,I think a lot of the time young people commit suicide because of all the pressure on them from high school, pleasing your parents and your peers. I have been at the point of considering it, and every time I just chickened out. It makes you realize that no matter what, someday you will be the person you want to be, regardless of what anyone tries to tell you.
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Name : Dan27280, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 18, City : Middletown, State : CT, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower class,they are weak…darwin said that the strongest survives and his theory works here. if you are too weak to survive teenage hood, then die and make room for the rest of us
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Name : Gus, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Asian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 18, City : AC, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Middle class,It’s not just kids who commit suicide. Anyone can if they think things are bad enough. I was raped by my uncle, the husband of my mom’s sister, from the time I was 4 to the time I was 6. At 15,I tried to overdose on as many pills I could find, over 300. I almost died. I was sent to a psych hospital for several months and it has taken me since then to try and workout my problems. I take a lot of medication and the urge to kill myself is strong sometimes. Still, I’m here when the doctors believed nthat I would have killed myself before I turned 18. I know that getting help can be scary and it can mess a lot of things up, but it is worth it. The time in the hospital was probably one of the best things for me. I now go to UCSB and I should be graduating soon. Don’t give up, Katie or whoever thinks that dying is the best way to solve things. Think about all the people you would effect if you died…watch Good Charlotte’s video ‘Hold On’. You can get through it.
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Name : Lauren, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : half white, half chinese, Age : 20, City : Tiburon, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Upper class,i know how katie feels, although i don’t know what causes her pain. I read the book and am so happy to find she has found the help she needs. I’ve been there- in junior high school i was very depressed and tried to take my own life via tylenol. fortunately it didnt work and i only ended up with a little nausea and a day off of school. my reason was that at the time, i hung out with many whites, and although i enjoyed alternative and grunge music and loved the lifestyle, i was upset that 1.i was overweight 2.i felt no man would ever love me cause white men & black women are uncommon combos, & black men & i would have nothing in common. i was able to find other friends to uplift me, and although some of that life was just a phase, the overweight part still burdens me today. i am taking care of that and would never think of taking my life for something so silly now, but you must understand that at the age i was, looking into the future was unrealistic- i could not see that far into the future and couldnt figure how id be of any use to the human race. it takes more patience and less judgemnt to deal with such cases, and remember that teens in those positions need people in thier lives who are willing to listen to their problems and not just suggest what they ‘should’ do, but do it with them and help them find something they like about life enought to want to live more and see/experience it. it is most often a phase that needs the right path to get out of it.
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Name : cellie-mil19156, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Baptist, Age : 21, City : brooklyn, State : NY, Country : United States,Personally, I was abused all through my childhood and don’t have any happy memories. When you’re a kid, your life, every detail of it, can be controlled by your family and it is very true that there is no escape. If you’re one of the very lucky ones that can prove you’re being abused, you might go to foster care, where molestors and other kinds of abusers lurk. Another option to kids is to run away, but that usually ends up involving drugs and selling yourself for sex. Kids know these things, and it’s very overwhelming. I could only live day-to-day, I didn’t care plan for the future, because I didn’t see myself as having one. Kids of all ages are targets for millions of child sexual predators and adults who want to enjoy exercizing thier power to control another individual to meet thier needs or desires. As a result of this background, I was not a happy child. Chemicals in your brain make up emotions, like one chemical making good feelings and another making bad feelings, so my environment was making bad feeling chemicals in my brain for years. When I was out of the situation, the formative years of my brain producing those ‘sad’ chemicals, or depression, continued making those chemicals at the same level, because that was now the learned ‘normal’ emotional state. For the rest of my life I will need to take medication that will force my brain to make good feeling chemicals to counter-act the effect of over-production of bad feeling chemicals. I hope people are beginning to learn that depression is not a weakness or a state of mind. I am optimistic by nature and always try to keep my environment uplifting. I am a very strong person. I was suicidal as a youth as well, but now that I’m free I can find reasons to go on and get help.
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Name : A-Clark, City : SLC, State : UT, Country : United States,My name is Nicole. I’m 17 years old. Maybe i’ll be able to explain teen suicide, because i know exactly why. As children, we are told that we’re beautiful, that we’re special, that we’ll always be loved. We know we’ll always have a place to go and people to run to when we feel lost and alone. Of course we hear stories about wild-teen years and growing up, but in our innocence, they all seem like campfire stories. In our minds, the world is good and everything’s fair. As our self-esteem grows, our awareness of the world around us shrinks. Then comes High School, an over-crowded facility where police officers with loaded guns patrol. Your classes are mixed classes with mixed messages and teachers who say that you’ll go nowhere and make you feel worthless. Standing up for what you believe in–just like your parents taught you–is ‘defiance’ and gets you in trouble. They break you down with fallacies that make you think you’re always wrong.You start fighting with your parents over grades and stupid stuff, and your Dad hugs you less, and your mom seems not to know what to do. You start realizing that you’re not special and it seems like there’s not enough time. You snap at people, try to justify yourself, and watch people you love slip away from you while your hands are tied and theres nothing you can do. And then friends suddenly disappear and are replaced by upper-classmen who surround you with mixed-messages about sex and drugs. you’re 14 and end up dating a guy whose 17 and letting him talk you into doing things you’re not ready for because ‘everyone else is doing them’ or ‘you have to do it sometime’ or “don’t you love me?” Your little victories in your life are never good enough for anyone else and all you want to do is make everything right. You keep giving and giving and giving, all the while being stepped on, until you have nothing left to give and everything you do only makes it worse. You stop caring, and start crying more, and then calling yourself a whimp because you’re crying. You feel powerless and small.You start realizing that the world isn’t a good place, and you’re not a good person, and no one cares whether you live or die in this life…and frankly neither do you.
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Name : Nicole, City : Los Angeles, State : CA, Country : United States,I am a Darwinist, not a creationist, but I think your response is harsh and unsympathetic. Depression and abuse from others may account for suicides. (It’s sad but true that many innocent children suffer physical, mental or sexual abuse from parents and other adults.) If you believe literally in survival of the fittest, then I guess you feel science shouldn’t interfere with biological determinism by creating medications for diabetes, hypertension, heart problems, etc. nor organ transplants for those who are “weaker”. There are even some animal species that protect the weaker ones. Just Curious
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Name : ShirleyAvery, Gender : F, Disability : none, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Jewish, Age : 52, City : st. louis, State : MO, Country : United States, Occupation : writer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,
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