Suicide now the biggest killer of teenage girls

Hi Guys,

I know this article isnt too relevant on this forum as nissanpatrol.com.au doesnt really have "teenage girls" as one of its target demographic, BUT, my sister who is a spokeswoman for youth suicide in australia has had an article published about her and i thought some of you might find it interesting. Its really amazing but shes gaining alot of traction with her suicide campaigning, having been now published on the news.com.au website and also in marie claire magazine several months ago. anyway, here is the article, shes an amazing girl and im definately proud to have call her my sister

News Article

Cheers,

Rusty

social media has a lot to answer for.
Rusty do you have a Phone number members could pass on

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Originally Posted by threedogs

social media has a lot to answer for.
Rusty do you have a Phone number members could pass on

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hey TD,

what do you mean a phone number mate? for a suicide prevention line? or for my sister?

Regards

Rusty

A help line number

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Originally Posted by threedogs

A help line number

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sure do mate, its listed at the bottom of the article but here it is =D

For 24/7 crisis support and suicide prevention services call Lifeline on 13 11 14 or visit www.lifeline.org.au

Good call, Nick.
It's been a hundred years since I was a teenage girl ( shocking, I know), but having a 13 year old girl at home and to see the crap she goes thru, mainly because of Faceache is heart breaking. You forget how hard it can be to not take everything personally. You cant just tell them to suck it up.... Teenage girls are the nastiest creatures on this earth.

Social media is a nasty nasty tool ,Im sort of lucky and have 2 boys well men now
but you see the damage this does every night on the news, I hate it dont have it and never will

Courageous sister you have there Rusty. Good on her for finding strength out of despair & sharing it with others.

Thanks for posting this Nic, you've got good reason to be very proud of your sister.

Any kind of awarness about depression and talking openly about it and letting people know there is help and someone who is willing to listen..

Back when my sister tried to do a job on herself there was not the pressure of media based forums and so on and it was hard enough for girls who seem to be really susceptible to depression... I think with some of the forms of media it is far worse.

I walked in on my sister in the bathroom covered in blood ( I dont mean a little) and my reaction was to get angry which is not what is needed in her time of crisis.

How men deal with womans depression I feel is different to how we deal with mens..(our mates) I think sometime we are not equipped to deal with it.

Being a spokes person is not easy as you have to surround yourself with peoples troubles... good on her... also for putting up with Nic !!!!!!!!

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good on her... also for putting up with Nic !!!!!!!!

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haha ya "BloodyIdiot". yeah mate, social media didnt exist for her either when she was having her troubles either. myspace came in towards the end of her tenure are school and facebook didnt even exist. i think social make things harder on kids, but also brings an openness to bullying and also cries for help which is a blessing and a curse. as im sure most of you know, there wasnt the anonymity of the interwebs much before 2000 for help, something like what this forum brings. most of her troubles were experiences in the halls of an all girls school... couldnt imagine anything worse.

Thanks for posting. Worth reading and will use it as a discussion point with my daughter

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Good call, Nick.
It's been a hundred years since I was a teenage girl ( shocking, I know), but having a 13 year old girl at home and to see the crap she goes thru, mainly because of Faceache is heart breaking. You forget how hard it can be to not take everything personally. You cant just tell them to suck it up.... Teenage girls are the nastiest creatures on this earth.

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Thanks for the vote of confidence Kat. jk...
I have a 12yo girl and the "girly things" are just starting to happen to her now, and she's a bit, here and there about it, at the moment because she doesn't really understand the hows and why's. Luckily her mum is helping her with this. My daughter doesn't have FB but no doubt she'll be wanting it next year when she's in high school. Something I'm not looking forward too. But I can't keep her wrapped up in cotton wool all her life. I just hope she meets good friends in high school next year and doesn't get mixed up with the wrong kids.

Then I have another daughter to worry about in a few years after that. I'm really going to be bald by then.

I am in the same boat as you Mudski. My eldest goes to high school next year as well and I have another 7 year in the way. This sort of stuff really worries me and I truly hope we as a family have to experience it.

Thanks Nick good post.


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It's one of my biggest fears also. I have a daughter in year 9 and and another in year 5. They both have phones as they catch the bus by themselves and are dabbling in social media.the eldest has Facebook. As Mudski says you can't wrap them in cotton wool forever. They both have great groups of friends which make a big difference, but as with teenage girls, I fear that's a very unstable environment....

Good on your sister for getting the message out.

Thanks for the post Nic

My nearly nine year old often says she wants 2 die / kill herself and that nobody loves her. For a kid she is an emotional wreck :(:(:(

My mums best friends daughters funeral was today, 38 year old women who took her own life and who had tried for the last 20 years but unfortunately succeeded a few days ago.
They had spent the last 20 years trying to help her too.

It's jaw dropping folks!

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Teenage girls are the nastiest creatures on this earth.

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KenOath they are. My eldest got mixed up with the wrong crowd when she was 13. Picked her up from the cop shop and she moved in with me. Met another mob of bad eggs and moved out back to her mums less than a year later. Facebook played a big part in her being an arsehole. Shes 19 now and I see her once a year. Now I have a 5yr old girl, I'm dreading those teen years again.

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My mums best friends daughters funeral was today, 38 year old women who took her own life and who had tried for the last 20 years but unfortunately succeeded a few days ago.
They had spent the last 20 years trying to help her too.

It's jaw dropping folks!

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Very sad AB, its such a shame and such a waste. im sorry for you mums loss and all others involved.

I used to work with a bloke who's sister had Schizophrenia. She was interviewed by triple J's Hack program about the voices in her head that constantly told her to self harm, its actually quite harrowing to hear, you can listen to it here. Her whole family worked really hard to help her through it but unfortunately she ended up successfully ending her life about a year after the interview. Needless to say close friends and family were all devastated.

Some of the stories out there are shocking and so unfortunate. I lost a really close friend back when I was around 13/14, she jumped off a bridge onto the freeway below, the amazing thing about it is that the girl (best friends) who jumped with her broke an ankle and suffered bruising. Another good mate of mine Jumped off mandaring wier as he was unable to get himself off the drugs, or so I heard as I had not seen most of my mates from school for a few years.
Such an absolute waist of life.


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“If I had died, I would have missed out on so much, but you don’t see that when you’re depressed.”

This last line of the article is so important, but how do you help people who are depressed to see it? I think it is good that someone like your sister, who has genuinely been there is being a role model. Maybe some will see it in her and then see it could be possible for them too. Still great that she is trying to help.

It's not just them that miss out but everyone else around them too. I have a mate at the moment who is not in good shape. He is getting professional help and it is helping, but it is a slow road. He hasn't been talking to any of us much over the last months, but finally made contact twice over the last week or so. I'm not sure what you are meant to really discuss, but I was very direct with him about how much his boys need him. He was equally blunt back to me that they are the only reason he is still here. Although he said he is doing better than that low. I hope in the darkest times that something like that can be enough.