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If you or your teen or someone you know is thinking about suicide–get help. Talk to someone (or many someone’s). Make sure you (or your teen) have people to talk to. It helps to talk it out.
Check out this fantastic video on what to say and what not to say to a teen (or anyone) thinking of suicide. It helps to talk it out.
Also see my post on Reasons Not To Kill Yourself.
Our theme this month is Risk Taking, and this video, "The Seventeenth Minute," illustrates a reach-out risk that can change someone's fate. Made by high school filmmakers, it's currently touring festivals and is well worth the four minutes.
If you’ve seen my It Gets Better video, or read some of my posts about Scars, you might know that I struggled with suicide as a teen, especially, but some other years as well. The emotional pain from the abuse and torture sometimes felt too unbearable, and when that was coupled with despair, I went past the planning stage and did try to kill myself. Being queer in a homophobic society also added to that.
I’m glad I’m here. Things have gotten so much better. But suicide is still an issue for many teens (and, I think, survivors of abuse, and queer people experiencing great homophobia). One teen killing themselves every 17 seconds is way, way too many! The video below is powerful, and, I think, ultimately hopeful. I hope you’ll watch and share it.
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Thanks for sharing this video, Cheryl. I shared it on Reddit.com and will try posting it elsewhere as well.
Oh, good! Thank you for doing that, Melissa! That’s fantastic.