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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (55315)8/28/2000 12:34:01 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 71178
 
Dealing with teen depression is the scariest and the riskiest. I hadn't read your post about the boy, I guess- I seem to be behind as usual.

When I read X's and then gaugie's, the similarity between his indignation and what X and I had felt about FS's cavalier dismissal of this woman's situation struck me.
I think there is a BIGGGGG difference between saying -
"kill yourself? How can you think that, you fool, look at that sunrise," and acknowledging the legitimacy of someone's pain and not saying it's wrong or silly or irrational, but, just as you said, trying to open a teeny connection between the world and the suicide, and giving back some feeling of control.

Letting a teen die would be a lot harder for me (and I know you) than an adult. BUt then, I am such a controlling mom.



To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (55315)8/28/2000 12:41:24 PM
From: Gauguin  Respond to of 71178
 
Very nice post.

And, "Teens are soooooooo sensitive."

Yah. I said to this one kid with a knife, "If you're going to do that, could you go around back? You're making people nervous." And ~ you know ~ mess.

There are very good reasons to die. To "move on."

And they're not worth arguing over with someone who disagrees.

Or with people who think death is morbid. Where do they get that? Whose authority? Huh? Jeez. Yappers.


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