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I can believe it

posted 12 years ago by PandoraTheEverCurious
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Try living in a small community like that and then having nobody to talk to, it would get overwhelming, you would become depressed, depression turns people suicidal more often than not and with the time frame of her mom being busy with selling houses, she had time to kill herself because she thought that was the only way out.

I live in a town of about 100,000+ people and back when my sister was 14 (she's 16 now) she was the victim of bullying like this. She didn't send any nude pictures or anything, she had a boyfriend who spread vicious rumors about her after they broke up and ended up sleeping with her best friend. For months they tortured my sister, on her Facebook page (creating fake accounts to harass her), through texts, laughing at her at school, leaving mean notes in her locker, etc. It took its toll on my sister to the point where my mom considered having her transferred to a different school. My sister would come home crying every day and no matter how many times my mom called up the school to ask them to do something about it or talked to the other kid's parents, nothing would get done. It wasn't until a really good police officer scared those kids by telling them about anti-bullying laws and what could happen to them, that the harassment eventually stopped.

Point being, that bullying like this can drive a person to kill themselves or want to kill themselves. So if you think stuff like this doesn't happen, then you're wrong.

You would think killing people would make them like you but it doesn't. It just makes them dead.

[–] namaGemo 11 years ago

Those people calling others who have or attempted suicide weak have not had enough life experiences. Those who call victims of suicide weak, I'd like to see them actually try it. It takes more guts to end all you have, or what you thought you had at some point. It's not weakness, it's the last bit of strength you have, and it is tragic.

[–] metsgirl84 10 years ago

I was horribly bullied most of my school career (from 4th grade on up to 11th grade), I remember bursting into tears each morning because I didn't want to go to school. This was 25 years ago when everything was just word of mouth and notes passed in school, there was no Internet, texting, Facebook or Snapchat. I could not imagine having to go through the kind of "viral" bullying that young people are subjected to today...all it takes is a jerk with a smartphone and the torment easily goes international....