Suicide around the teen years is so sad because it shows just how difficult life can be in that time, and how little support is being given to so many thousands of teens.
Being a teenager in the U.S. means you're:
1. Going through puberty still and have all the crazy emotional states that go along with that.
2. Possibly having sex for the first time, and hopefully you're making the right decisions in that area.
3. Finishing up the required and free part of your education. This means you have to make decisions that will drastically alter the rest of your entire life, such as whether will you go to school, where you'll go, how much debt are you willing to take on, and what you'll study. If you make the wrong decisions here, you could suffer financially for decades to come.
There's much more but it's really a crazy time in life, and I've seen so many parents who treat their teenagers like they're simply overly-dramatic children who can't possibly understand how hard "real life" is. Meanwhile those same parents in part only experienced difficult adult lives due to the fact they made poor decisions in their teenage years.
To me, it all comes down to parenting. It comes down to making sure your children have strong support systems. I lost a close friend, a 19 year old, a couple of years back to suicide. An outsider would have assumed his parents were extremely supportive, but they were unfortunately too focused on his material success vs. his emotional and social success.
(Discuss) Updating status to organ donor, my sincerest advice.
TL;Dr
A friend whome struggled with depression from a young age was injured severly, I helped save him. later in life we ended up as neighbors.. after a falling out due to his mental health and loss of job and domestic situations. He made good on his threats only after sending me a hate-filled text.
Another individual I grew up around moved into the neighborhood as well and was attempting to commit the act even stated you probably don't want to be here for this nothing I could say was going to sway him.. So I called in some persistent friends to intervene successfully..
When the news about our mutual friend and neighbor broke he confided to me that he had encouraged him to take his own life (clearly in a state of disbelief and guilt)
All I could say was man you don't encourage people to commit no matter what factors that lead you to escalate it to fruition.
Friend one saved..
Friend two saved..
Friend two encourages friend one successfully to un alive himself..
Friend two live streams his second attempt.. paramedics resuscitate him... should have been an organ donor. Now he is a living breathing burden that can't speak move or eat.
I couldn't help them in end. If both of them had been organ donors they could have helped give multiple people a fighting chance at life albeit at cost. I may need a kidney soon and my sister received a kidney after 13 years waiting in total renal failure.. Tl;Dr life is precious what better gift can you give?】
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 16.6 ms ] threadBeing a teenager in the U.S. means you're:
1. Going through puberty still and have all the crazy emotional states that go along with that.
2. Possibly having sex for the first time, and hopefully you're making the right decisions in that area.
3. Finishing up the required and free part of your education. This means you have to make decisions that will drastically alter the rest of your entire life, such as whether will you go to school, where you'll go, how much debt are you willing to take on, and what you'll study. If you make the wrong decisions here, you could suffer financially for decades to come.
There's much more but it's really a crazy time in life, and I've seen so many parents who treat their teenagers like they're simply overly-dramatic children who can't possibly understand how hard "real life" is. Meanwhile those same parents in part only experienced difficult adult lives due to the fact they made poor decisions in their teenage years.
To me, it all comes down to parenting. It comes down to making sure your children have strong support systems. I lost a close friend, a 19 year old, a couple of years back to suicide. An outsider would have assumed his parents were extremely supportive, but they were unfortunately too focused on his material success vs. his emotional and social success.
Another individual I grew up around moved into the neighborhood as well and was attempting to commit the act even stated you probably don't want to be here for this nothing I could say was going to sway him.. So I called in some persistent friends to intervene successfully..
When the news about our mutual friend and neighbor broke he confided to me that he had encouraged him to take his own life (clearly in a state of disbelief and guilt)
All I could say was man you don't encourage people to commit no matter what factors that lead you to escalate it to fruition.
Friend one saved.. Friend two saved.. Friend two encourages friend one successfully to un alive himself.. Friend two live streams his second attempt.. paramedics resuscitate him... should have been an organ donor. Now he is a living breathing burden that can't speak move or eat. I couldn't help them in end. If both of them had been organ donors they could have helped give multiple people a fighting chance at life albeit at cost. I may need a kidney soon and my sister received a kidney after 13 years waiting in total renal failure.. Tl;Dr life is precious what better gift can you give?】