Teen Suicide: Silent Killer

Hey Viewers, I could use your help on a few things. I want to add anything to my post of 100 thing a teen could do besides suicide just comment. I already have 100 but more would be great. Next if you will take my poll and give me an idea of another poll i could put up it would help my blog loads. (well what do you know the follow button is right there by my poll, you can just go ahead and follow my blog while your reading.) (Their is also a follow button that should be at the top left side of your screen if you are logged into your own blog) thanks for all of your help and I'm here for all of my viewers. if you have any questions just ask and i will get back to you with an answer ASAP.
Love, Myesha Edwards

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Be positive

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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Words are worse than Sticks and Stones (Viewer Discretion Is Advised)

Reflection 3

If you look back at all my sources you will see that all of them have a special massage to them. Each of my sources is written by someone who sees teen suicide as what it really is—an epidemic “of the ages”. The sources I used helped me to see the bias in some essays and the shocking statistics and facts in the others. Most things that I found were not very shocking. It was mostly information on “who, what, when, where, why, and how’s” of suicide. To find out things such as preventions, signs, and solutions, I had to search a bit more. One thing I did not go over as much as I wanted was real life events, and heart ranching stories. I feel that this is something that could have made my blog better, by giving it a face to match the voices. It is one tragic occurrence that people often glaze over and do not take into full account. The other thing I did not do at all was find a source on the opposing side of suicide. Not in saying anyone who is for suicide in finding someone who does not believe it is as significant. My sources did however help me “in the long run”

Sunday, April 3, 2011

How to help a depressed friend

HERE ARE SOME SIGNS OF DEPRESSION:

1. There's no interest in school and grades fall.

2. Being with friends holds absolutely no appeal.

3. Sleep problems are common--either not being able to fall asleep at night or wanting to sleep all day.

4. Appetite is out of whack. There's either no desire for food, or the person seems to be eating all the time.

5. The person is obsessed with thoughts of death, maybe suicide. It's estimated that 15 percent of people with major depression commit suicide, and many more attempt it. There are 6,000 suicides by adolescents each year, and depression is the biggest risk factor.

6. Everything seems hopeless, and there's the feeling it will never get better.

7. Headaches, stomachaches, or other aches and pains appear.

8. It's impossible to concentrate or make a decision.

HOW DEPRESSION FEELS; BY: MYESHA EDWARDS

Depression is more than felling sad, it is an everyday event that consumes you. It hurts you physically and mentally. It feels like your being swallowed into a dark cloud only you cannot scream out to anyone because all your energy and life has been drained. Sooner or later you just do not care anymore. You attempt to reach out for help but your just so tired, and not physically tired, just tired of everything. This tired feeling is the one that leads most to suicide; you get sick of eating, finished talking, done with all the fake smiling, and soon done living. Depression is something most cannot understand unless they feel it for themselves.
WHAT YOU SHOULD DO TO HELP:

1. Make an effort to be with your friend, even though it might not be easy. Depressed people tend to feel isolated.

2. Don't use false cheerfulness. Your friend may feel you aren't taking the problem seriously.

3. Don't blame. Depression is no one's fault.

4. Don't get angry. It's nothing personal if your friend doesn't respond to your help.

5. Express your own feelings. If you don't want to listen to your friend's woes again, just say so. Go out and have fun and don't feel guilty.

6. Get adult help. If your friend talks about suicide, or you're worried for any other reason, talk to your parents, your friend's parents, your school counselor. It's not a breach of loyalty to save a friend's life.

Arbetter, Sandra. Depression: Way Beyond The Blues. 16 March 2011 <http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com.wf2dnvr15.webfeat.org/discoweb/disco/do/article?urn=urn%3Asirs%3AUS%3BARTICLE%3BART%3B0000025032 >.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Reflection 2

When I first stumbled upon the idea of teen suicide I thought it would be a breeze. I quickly found that most sites give you the basics in what you already know about suicide. To answer any of my questions I had to specifically type in key words on discus just to get close to an excellent site. After that I had to go into the pages that seemed high-quality and read them all word for word; but it didn’t stop there then I had to determine if the author was a reliable source—and that is merely the basic search process for all sources. Whenever I needed to find my sources I needed to find things that could help me in more than one way, as in answer more than one question. It was not a tough process it was solitary time consuming and it took a lot of work to add a scene of empathy to each and every post. The source by Jessica portner, Teen suicide: The Silent Epedimic, helped me the most and gave me a exceptional source of all kinds of usefull information that I did not know. Since all of my sources came from discus so for the most part everything was reliable. I think what made my blog easyer was the strong feelings I had for the topic which caused me to put my all into this blog and make it 100%.

Reflection 1

Teen suicide is a sensitive topic that countless of us are not familiar with; and, those things we do know are generally assumptions. I am surprised to discover that various times teens do not fathom that death is final, they often envision how much enhanced things will be after they are gone. This is an appalling actuality to come to, however, it is one all to true. Bullying is a familiar and daunting cause of suicide; this, which has been known to be a huge problem in the United States, could be associated with a teens thought that “anything was better than the life they are living”. This in itself shows that suicide is more than a feeling, and it is this that has strengthen my connection, interest, and over all need to inform as many teens, parents, and adults alike to the crisis ahead. A common question is ‘why is it that teens do not go to their friends or relatives when they have the initial thoughts of suicide’? The book Th1rteen R3asons Why brings a realistic and emotional feel to the whole situation of suicide, in the world and through the eyes of a suicidal teen, Hannah Baker. We can hear her emotions, and, because we could only imagine the hurt a suicidal teen feels, we sense a great deal of pity for her. It is an eye opener and leads me to my other finding that, subjects as simple as the way someone was born can be targeted and picked at until, like a scab, it bleeds out. We must educate ourselves to find that suicide is not a joke and we should never em-place comedy to hide our ignorance.