Honestly, I'm generally a huge downer. I get angry easily, I dislike most people, and I usually expect things to turn out for the worst. The thing is, I don't let that side of me show. While I might be cussing you out in my head, I'm most likely having a nice conversation with you.
The frustrating thing is that I am a normal teenager with normal teenager feelings; I get depressed and hate myself sometimes just like every other teen. Just because I don't sit around and whine about it doesn't mean that I don't feel it, and it especially doesn't mean that you have the right to tell me that I have no clue what I'm talking about when it comes to suicide. So thank you, Dane, for giving me something to write about today.
When MY friend posts a status on Facebook saying how she wants to slit her wrists and just give up, I have just as much a right as you to tell her that she shouldn't. Just because I didn't give her all that "Oh, yeah, I've totally been there" crap doesn't mean that I don't know what I'm talking about. And it especially doesn't mean that you do know what you're talking about. Seriously, Dane? Your advice to a suicidal girl is to smoke pot instead of killing herself? Way to go. Because now instead of ending her life she can go ahead and ruin it. And then maybe she'll die of lung cancer. WOOHOO! That's WAY better than slitting your wrists!
On top of that, Dane, do you realize that the only reason that any teen would actually tell people that they were going to commit suicide is to get attention? Any sane person who wanted to succeed in committing suicide would be intelligent enough to NOT tell anyone about it. Don't you think that they would probably keep their plans a secret so that nobody could stop them? So maybe instead of saying how much we love them and how life is so important, we should just post something that lets them know that slitting your wrists is a dumb way to commit suicide.
And did you ever think that maybe I know a little bit more about teenage suicide than you? What part of "I want to major in psychology" is hard to understand? Obviously, psychology interests me, so OBVIOUSLY I read up on things like teenage suicide and depression. Which means that while you might think that you once had a few suicidal thoughts, I not only know that I once was depressed, but I also have read several studies and know about depression and suicide in itself.
So maybe for once in your life, you should shut up, because I do know what I'm talking about.
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