05 Sunday Feb 2017
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Adolescence, Author, Bullying, Coping, Cyber Bullying, Help, Hope, Love, Mental Health, Peer Pressure, Published, School, Social Media, Suicide, Support Groups, TEEN DEPRESSION, teenager, Unpublished
How does depression look?
Photography By: Ask Ms Mandi
Copyright 02.01.2014
02 Thursday Feb 2017
Posted in Just a PERFECT Thought
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Children, College, Grief, Healing, Help, high school, Mental Health, Suicide, Support Groups, TEEN DEPRESSION, The Compassionate Friends, Website
SIBLINGS…
When a child dies, especially to suicide and so young, everyone seems to focus on the parents, and their pain and sorrow, and especially the mother’s anguish.
However, sometimes there are siblings who are forgotten. They too have a special kind of loss.
She has lost their best friend.
Who will she share their future memories?
Who will she call late at night when she just needs someone there to listen to her and to laugh with her?
Who will be her Maid of Honor at her wedding?
Who will she call with the great news that she will be an aunt?
Who will she roll her eyes at during Thanksgiving dinner when annoying family members show up at the door?
Who will she talk to about “Remember when’s…”?
Who will she share her memories? And who will she create new memories?
This is especially hard when she is now the only child.
When a sibling dies, all future special occasions will be forever changed.
We, as parents and support groups, must remember their grieving process because when a sibling dies, they lose a part of their past, present and future.
Here is a support group, chat site, for siblings grieving a loss of a sibling:
Support Group: The Compassionate Friends
The Compassionate Friends Sounds of the Siblings (for bereaved siblings)
Written By: Ask Ms Mandi
Photograph By: Ask Ms Mandi
Copyright February 2, 2017
19 Thursday Jan 2017
Posted in Authors of the Week
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Author, Healing, Health, Hope, Mental Health, Published, TEEN DEPRESSION, Teen Suicide, Unpublished, Writer
Teen Depression Website
I’ve never suffered from depression, but I wonder if this is how she felt:
Everyday is a constant struggle just to stay alive, nothing makes your happy, tired of trying to be happy, can’t imagine this dull pain inside your heart forever…with the hopelessness.
The feeling that you are all alone even though you know you have people who dearly love you.
If this is what depression is…I can’t even image living like this everyday…
Here is the website to get hooked up with others that may know what you are going through: groups.psychologytoday.com
Written By: Ask Ms Mandi
Photograph By: Ask Ms Mandi
Copyright 01.19.2017
01 Sunday Jan 2017
Posted in POEMS By Jewels
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Author, Cure, Cutting, Death, Depression, Elegy, God, Healing, Hospitals, Instituions, Mental Health, Poems, Published, Saving, Self-Harm, Sick, Suicide, TEEN DEPRESSION, Teen Suicide, Unpublished, Writer, Youth
I Said I Did
By: JCW
11/26/2016
you said you were fine,
When I asked if you were okay.
I didn’t believe you,
but I said I did.
You said you were cold,
When I asked why you always wore jackets.
I didn’t believe you,
but I said I did.
You said you were sick,
When I asked why you went to a hospital.
I didn’t believe you,
but I said I did.
You said you cared,
When I asked if you did.
I didn’t believe you,
but I said I did.
Now you’re gone,
Dead for good.
I knew I shouldn’t have believed you.
I SHOULDN’T OF SAID I DID.
18 Sunday Dec 2016
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Death, Depression, Healing, HEAVEN, Hope, Love, OUTREACH PROGRAMS, Poems, SAD, TEEN DEPRESSION, Teen Suicide
INSIDE THE MIND OF A 14-YEAR OLD – DEPRESSION KILLS
JCW 11/26/2016
DAYDREAMS
I like to imagine a different world,
one where I can smile
One where I won’t be curled
up in bed for a long while
This place is happy and has rainbows
filled with flowers and blue skies
Sun so bright, it glows
there are no questions or whys
And I like to think I’m happy
an environment I can’t be sad
No movies or books would be sappy
cause all I’ll be is glad.
Sadly this new world isn’t real
I am stuck behind a wall, unable to heal
Photograph By: Ask Ms Mandi
Copyright December 18, 2016
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