Posted by hyperfocus on October 8, 2011, at 15:40:01
In reply to Re: Retribution » floatingbridge, posted by floatingbridge on October 7, 2011, at 21:41:33
lol you didn't kill anything fb, it's just a difficult thing to consider for most people, especially with children. I think any parent would feel exactly as you did in your post.
He was out and I believe his parents supported him and they did know about him tormented because a lot of it was on Facebook and social networking sites. With today's technology, bullying doesn't stop when you go home. But he had a youtube channel where he posted videos of him dancing to Lady Gaga songs and made a video for It Get's Better and he had good friends who supported him and I guess everybody thought he ok. But just like in a lot of bullying suicides some critical thing inside him snapped one day and he decided to end his life. I read an article that said the people the most likely to go through with suicide are the impulsive ones, not the depressed ones. Being 13 or 14 or 15 sort of defines impulsive - a lot of bullying suicide victims are this age.
It wasn't all homophobia - I don't think kids that age even understand homophobia. It was just straight hatred towards somebody different and vulnerable. When I was his age calling someone a f----- was like the worst insult in the world and was used against me a lot. It had nothing to do with sexuality per se. There are just a lot of people in the world who like to join together and inflict pain on other people and take pleasure in someones humiliation - that's all it is. But we could at least go home and escape it. In today's world Facebook and Tumblr et.al can multiply the hatred till it seems like the whole world is against you, especially if you're 14 or 15.
C-PTSD: social phobia, major depression, dissociation.
Currently: 300mg amitriptyline single dose at night.
Also: Allegra, 1000mg Vitamin C.
Improving.
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