re: 12 y/o girl suicide via Facebook live

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Det. Kristen Hearn said the Polk County Police Department is obtaining search warrants for Davis's phone, Facebook account and a third social media site after unconfirmed rumors were reported the incident was recorded by the phone on a live streaming website.

She said she will seek the warrants on Tuesday to be able to get into the phone and confirm if the rumors are true.

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Warrants required because she didn't have any friends on those services who could actually see it.










Too soon?

You can search youtube. It is graphic and disturbing. Poor girl, sounds like she was screaming for help... history of being a cutter and second attempt at suicide, and said somewherr that her stepfather might have raped her. She did suffer from depression. It's sad

According to Mr Hangover if the father raped her, it's her own fault and no excuse for having depression.

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At 12, you are rolling down the levee, playing outside, having fun while being financially supported.

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Maybe for you. Not everyone is so lucky.

To answer your questions, yes to both.

Preteens and even children can have clinical depression. But teenage angst, blues, sub clinical depression, whatever you want to call it is more common in teens.

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Be the watcher and observer of your thoughts, emotions and events that occur in your life and realize that none have the ability to hurt you in any way. The real you lives in a dimension beyond fear, death, etc. Therein lies peace.

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Not that I disagree with your sentiment, but lol man. Have you been around teenagers? I doubt the Buddha was mature enough as teen for the level of reasoning, patience, and objectivity necessary for the mentality you've described.

Hell most adults can't do it.

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Prayers to that mother

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From what I read on Reddit, the girl put notes online (maybe Instagram) saying her mom was a pill head who never took care of them, cleaned the house, cooked, etc. She was 12 and had to care for her younger siblings. On top of that, her step father raped her and told her she was worthless and to hang herself. She recently had to face her stepfather again at Christmas which may have set off more emotions.

Poor, innocent child got fricked because her parents were the scum of the earth.

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but in MY experience, depression is usually a self inflicted wound

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if people knew how to control their thoughts and knew how to stop manifesting so much negativity, most of the cases of depression would be nonexistent

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Didn't your 2nd statement just contradict your first? How can it be self inflicted if you're admitting people don't know how to control their thoughts?

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've been to the DR twice in my life dealing with 'depression'.. as soon as I stopped feeling sorry for myself and motivated myself to make a positive change in my life, the depression magically went away. All I needed was a kick in the arse and a wake up call to stop feeling so god damn sorry for myself and do something about it


So I guess you can lump me in the category of people who believe that MOST cases of depression are just for attention or just a self pity party

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You do realize that depression isn't the same for everyone, right?

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gIt's tragic that our society teaches children from birth that they are corrupted, guilty and tainted by "original sin". The negative effects that have flowed from bull shite religious teachings have done incredible damage to society and the mental, emotional and physical health of individual human beins

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dude STFU. You're trying so hard to sound philosophical and deep, but your post screams "intellectual dwarf". Do you know how many people are born and raised under religious tenants? How many are taught by their religion that they are

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corrupted, guilty and tainted by "original sin".

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The problem isn't religion- its the adult's interpretation of religion and what they convey to the adolescent. Furthermore, if we

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as a society

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were guilty as you say, there'd be many more suicidal kids. But there aren't. Thats because MOST kids are raised by decent parents under some form of religion. This secular horse shite of always blaming religionl is a fricking cop out for shitty people doing shitty things to other people. Thats not religious and its not part of any predominant religion in a first world country. Instead of spewing the liberal, pseudo intellectual line about organized religion, put the blame squarely where it lies- on the adults who abused and mistreated the kid. Not a belief system that does and has done far more good than harm in modern society.

Getting an understanding of situations like this make you love everyone around you so much more