Many of these kids are being brought up with no religion too.
--- Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 9, 2007, at 11:53 AM, Kristyne McDaniel > wrote: > > >> Yeap, give a problem a little time, and it will > pass. Suicide is a > >> permanent solution to a temporary problem. > > > > That's one of the best things parents and adults > can help teens to > > understand. When you're a kid and everything seems > to be so > > important, it is > > difficult to get an accurate fix on where your > problems fit in with > > the rest > > of your life. If you don't have adults around that > you respect and > > can talk > > to, you can wind up killing yourself over a > temporary problem. It > > is easy to > > work yourself up when your emotions are raw. > > While all of this is certainly true, it is also the > case that > clinical depression usually first manifests itself > in these years. > When someone has this condition, it doesn't matter > how much talking > is done, or how much you try to reason with the > person. They are > simply incapable of seeing things as being any > different than they > feel at that moment. People without depression who > are going through > tough emotional times can understand that it may > pass and can imagine > feeling better at some point in the future; people > with depression > simply cannot. > > -- Ed Leafe > -- http://leafe.com > -- http://dabodev.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, > are the opinions of the author, and do not > constitute legal or medical advice. This statement > is added to the messages for those lawyers who are > too stupid to see the obvious. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
