watch this... pass it on ..... or... what ever...

[lost-in-nj]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TdkNn3Ei-Lg


powerful is an understatement


lost

[graywarrior]

1. Thanks

Shared on fb

[lost-in-nj]

3. Thanks Gray...... n/t

[RebelOne]

2. It is sad. I hope he gets his life together and has some happiness. n/t

[Suich]

4. Bullying was addressed on Extreme Home Makeover on

ABC last night.

Here's a link: http://www.standtogether.tv/

[nolabear]

5. I shared. It was posted in August and I wonder what's happened since.

[mockmonkey]

6. 4 hours ago

http://www.youtube.com/user/RandomTV201?feature=watch

[WillParkinson]

7. Wow...

I could cry. I wish that young man the very best in life.

[UndertheOcean]

8. there should be a zero tolerance policy towards bullying

that would make more sense than current zero tolerance policies concerned with box cutters and ibuprofen pills.

[Amaril]

9. No child.............

......Hell, no PERSON, period......should EVER have to suffer that kind of torture. I wanted to gather that baby up in my arms and kick the snot out of each and every little terrorist that is making his life a living nightmare.

[mockmonkey]

10. Update video

http://www.youtube.com/user/AniMatrixProductions

Sounds like things got better. :)

The link I posted before was changed to a different video. I don't know why.

[GoCubsGo]

11. I really don't understand this "cutting" business.

I was the fat kid growing up, and back in the day, we were the targets of that kind of bullying. It never occurred to me to mutilate myself in response to the shitty way others were treating me. Not trying to criticize anyone. I just seriously don't understand what purpose it serves. And, I was his age in the 1970s. I don't remember anyone else doing that sort of thing either.

[Tripper11]

13. It serves as a release of emotions...

and I'm sure there are other reasons.
Kids get confused, their emotions get all jumbled up at the best of times, add bullying, school and any other adolecesnt angst into the mix and voila

[LWolf]

12. .

:(

[Tripper11]

14. Here's a really good article about teen suicide

Posted in the Toronto Star over the weekend.

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1096524--people-who-attempted-suicide-as-youths-trace-their-recovery">People who attempted suicide as youths trace their recovery

Sometimes, amid the fullness of youth, teenagers can see only darkness in themselves and the future. Some try to die by suicide. Many think about it. They can’t imagine life will get any better.

But it can. Kristen Bellows is still in awe of her happiness and success, years after attempting suicide as a 16-year old. She found contentment doesn’t just come to her; she has to work at it. The first step was thinking of one good thing about herself. Just one.

Teens don’t realize, as Oakville university student Darren Savage says, that anger, despair or loneliness are temporary. They do pass.

Savage came close to suicide. It scared him.

Kate Wren got in the habit of trying to kill herself. Some reports say that among young people there are some 200 attempts for every suicide death. Wren now makes jewellery with life-affirming messages and has a job helping people regain mental health.

Ian Manion, a clinical psychologist and leading researcher on youth suicide, says a suicide attempt does not mean a young life is ruined forever.