Suicide now the biggest killer of teenage girls

[rusty_nail]

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

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.

[cgm]

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

[mudski]

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.

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.

[krbrooking]

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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[Rocket55]

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.

[NissanGQ4.2]

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

[AB]

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!

[growler2058]

Teenage girls are the nastiest creatures on this earth.

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.

[rusty_nail]

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!

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.

[krbrooking]

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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