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.
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