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re: CHS Sr. committed suicide tonight
Posted on 1/11/20 at 2:12 pm to liz18lsu
Posted on 1/11/20 at 2:12 pm to liz18lsu
I agree with this wholeheartedly. Social media has warped so many kids brains these days. When we were young we would go outside and play with the neighbors. That gave us a feeling of feeling wanted, even though we didn’t know that was happening. To many kids today are affected by what people say and do on social media.
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Posted on 1/11/20 at 2:18 pm to HoustonChick86
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Suicide is awful.
I've lost my sister to it and had myself committed for suicidal thoughts.
We really need to make mental health an acceptable topic so people aren't so scared to step up and say they need help.
Sorry for your loss and this family's loss. I had an older brother that went down a bad road ma y years ago and was admitted a couple of times. I was only 18-19 at the time, working two jobs to do the best I could and still living in my parents house. To this day I will never forget the one morning my mother woke me up by knocking on my door and saying," my name, it's your brother, they just admitted him to such and such place, I need you to take me to...". My mother was perfectly capable of driving, but she was such a wreck at that time that she couldn't. My dad was out of town working, and my other brothers lived to far away or were to young. That was the longest couple hour drive I have ever had. I will say my brother made it through his troubles and is doing great to this day. We need mental health to be taken seriously in this country and dealt with properly. Unfortunately right now we have people that would rather encourage it than support what needs to be done properly. This shite still fricks me up to even talk about several decades later, if you've been there, you know.
Posted on 1/11/20 at 2:21 pm to liz18lsu
quote:It's a combination of the average person not being told what the warning signs are and how often those with suicidal depression can also be bipolar. One day they're the happiest person on Earth and the next day they don't even want to leave their bed.
Even if it was a desperate cry for attention, why do we not see the signs, until it's too late?
Posted on 1/11/20 at 2:58 pm to Miketheseventh
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many kids today are affected by what people say and do on social media.
Kids are demonized for thoughts, ideas. Social media is overloaded with negativity. Their brains become negative conduits.
Posted on 1/11/20 at 3:00 pm to RogerTheShrubber
The idea that you HAVE to be on SM, and that every action is potentially put out there for the world to see? frick that.
Posted on 1/11/20 at 3:10 pm to liz18lsu
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The idea that you HAVE to be on SM, and that every action is potentially put out there for the world to see? frick that.
In the old days there was a neighborhood hierarchy. For boys that meant competing and doing things humans are hard wired to do. Kids these days don't have that. There's a global audience where negativity and trashiness are promoted.
Well adjusted kids will not require validation and will be comfortable with who they are. Those are virtually impossible if your "friends" are virtual.
Social media, pop culture, etc still promote social hierarchies, except these aren't promoted by positive role models. It's about 15 minutes of fame, "likes" and validation.
This post was edited on 1/11/20 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 1/11/20 at 3:14 pm to IntenseKid
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Best post I’ve ever read on td.
In 6 years?
Thank you, but it’s only words. Just my own truth.
I’ve been in the dark place and I still deal with then ache of someone who couldn’t seem to hang on a little longer.
It’s that empty aching longing, the unanswered questions, the feeling that i could have, should have done something.
A dark moment can seem like eternity, but it will end.
It won’t last. The deepest Darkness, as dreadful and inescapable as it may seem, will lose its power with even the smallest light.
This post was edited on 1/11/20 at 3:18 pm
Posted on 1/11/20 at 3:15 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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For boys that meant competing and doing things gumans are hard wired to do. Kids these days don't have that. There's a global audience where negativity and trashiness are promoted.
Wasn't just boys, Roger. Who could climb a tree the fastest, win the kickball game in someone's front yard...times were simpler without all these animated rectangles in our faces.
Posted on 1/11/20 at 3:23 pm to liz18lsu
It's a shame that people blame themselves for other people's decisions. In this thread I see people claiming they knew a "really great mom" who committed suicide? Great mom? Is that a joke? That's as mentally scarring for a child as brutal abuse.
People who commit suicide deserve to be ridiculed. People who struggle and choose not to commit suicide deserve to be praised
People who commit suicide deserve to be ridiculed. People who struggle and choose not to commit suicide deserve to be praised
Posted on 1/11/20 at 3:42 pm to joshnorris14
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It's a shame that people blame themselves for other people's decisions. In this thread I see people claiming they knew a "really great mom" who committed suicide? Great mom? Is that a joke? That's as mentally scarring for a child as brutal abuse. People who commit suicide deserve to be ridiculed. People who struggle and choose not to commit suicide deserve to be praised
I am no bleeding heart, but to take your own life indicates severe mental illness. You are looking through sane eyes. "She should have thought about her kids" etc. Sometimes people's brains are wired wrong. I don't take the blame away, same as a serial killer, if you know you are defective, find help. But sometimes, people are just mentally fricked up. Ridicule? More like help those left behind.
Posted on 1/11/20 at 3:45 pm to liz18lsu
If they are clinically insane, there is no hope for them. The showering of remorse and remembrance our society provides those who commit suicide no doubt makes it more likely the sane individuals who are capable of making the rational decision to not take their life, do the opposite.
Posted on 1/11/20 at 3:48 pm to joshnorris14
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People who commit suicide deserve to be ridiculed
What are you gonna do? Poke fun at a corpse? See if they’ll kill themselves again?
Maybe instead we should try to reach out to those who might find themselves in that seemingly incurable sadness and be the little light they need to break the looming dark.
It’s easy to laugh at someone languishing in a hole.
I’ve been in the hole. It seems inescapable. Bare walls and you scratch and claw in the dark. You want to give up and sink into the mire. Surrender yourself to the creeping despair.
It might take everything you have to hang on, but if you can hang on just a little while longer, someone is coming with a rope
Posted on 1/11/20 at 3:50 pm to fr33manator
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What are you gonna do? Poke fun at a corpse? See if they’ll kill themselves again?
We could condemn them the same way we do other murderers.
Regardless, it's not about that particular individual, it's about the response our culture has to the event and its likelihood of providing an environment to be replicated
Posted on 1/11/20 at 3:57 pm to choupiquesushi
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Uh yes, yes we did.
Agreed. They even did a dark comedy about teen suicide in the 80s (Heathers)
Again....cause of stigma of depression and mental illness....”those things” were just not discussed openly back then. But I would imagine many of us knew of someone or had a friend that knew someone young that attempted or was successful in committing suicide at a young age.
This post was edited on 1/11/20 at 4:01 pm
Posted on 1/11/20 at 4:00 pm to joshnorris14
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People who commit suicide deserve to be ridiculed. People who struggle and choose not to commit suicide deserve to be praised
Your attitude is part of the problem.
Posted on 1/11/20 at 4:04 pm to lsunurse
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Your attitude is part of the problem.
Oh spare me the pretentiousness
Posted on 1/11/20 at 4:05 pm to joshnorris14
Nah man you’re an a-hole in this situation. Best to bow out.
Posted on 1/11/20 at 4:08 pm to AbitaFan08
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Nah man you’re an a-hole in this situation
Right, it's me, the guy pointing out that parent's who commit suicide are terrible parents, not the parents who commit suicide, that is the a-hole
Posted on 1/11/20 at 4:11 pm to joshnorris14
Your inability to understand the complexity of mental illness, especially severe depression with suicidal ideation, shows a lack of intelligence on your part.
This post was edited on 1/11/20 at 4:12 pm
Posted on 1/11/20 at 4:11 pm to joshnorris14
I don’t want you to ever have to deal with mental depression in your family. But if you do at some point in your life, please come back and read your own comments.
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