I think the way to get this stopped is doing several different things. First, they need to teach kids to step up and stop others from picking on other kids. THey need to be taught that it is important not only because it is right, but it might save their own lives, if they keep someone from feeling that no one cares.
Another thing is that mental health care and information has got to be more accessable in this country. If anyone wants to say they have never been depressed they are lying. It is a human condition that anyone with real emotions will have at one time or the other. But, people often ignore friends and family members who need it, because they are not informed as to how to help them, or they are embarrassed or don't want to get "involved". This is a societial problem and we all have to solve it, every day we live. We have to do it to protect ourselves and others we care about. Sorry that I got so "preachy" but I had to turn in a friend in high school who named five members of our senior class that she would kill if she could. She needed help. It took a long time before she forgave me for doing it, but I think I probably saved her from a lot worse situation than she could have had. And, mabe I saved someone's life.
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