Today is Suicide Awareness day
and the fact is Suicide isn’t a joke
1.000.000 people commit suicide
every year, 750.000 more attempt suicide.
1 in 5 teenagers has thought about suicide, about 1 in 6 teenagers have
made plans for suicide, and more than 1 in 12 teenagers have attempted suicide
in the last year. As many as 8 out of 10 teenagers who have committed suicide
tried to ask for help in some way before actually committing suicide.
80% of these people suffer major depression;
most of them show no sign of it. They walk the hallways wearing a mask they
call a smile.
A person commits suicide every 40
seconds. Every 41 seconds a person is left to try and make sense of what
happened.
Take a minute to think of the person you love
the most or even the person sitting next to you this very moment, really
think..... Tomorrow you get the terrible news; He or She has just taken their
own life. Your heart drops, smashing into a million pieces when it hits the floor;
you are left with just one question: "WHY?"
But you can't go back and ask, what's done is
done. It leaves your heart with a scar knowing you could have saved them, you
could have helped them. It leaves you wondering how could you have not seen how
much they were hurting. This person you loved and thought you knew so well,
gone. How could they hide their pain so well?
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The motto of the Will-To-Live Foundation: “FOR THE KIDS, THROUGH
THE KIDS, BY THE KIDS,” The motto of Life TeamMates: “LOVE YA MAN!”
MR TRAUTWEIN AND THE FOUNDATION, ENCOURAGES THESE KIDS TO REACH OUT TO EACH OTHER. HE TEACHES THEM TO RECOGNIZE THAT AS TEENAGERS, THEY HAVE ALREADY MET SOME OF THE GREATEST FRIENDS OF THEIR LIVES – THEIR LIFE TEAMMATES! IF THEY CAN RECOGNIZE THAT FACT, THAN PERHAPS THEY’LL BE MORE READY TO REACH OUT TO THESE LIFE TEAMMATES WHEN IN NEED. EVERYONE AGREES, IT’S ALWAYS EASIER TO TALK TO A CLOSE FRIEND – SO THE WTL FOUNDATION PROMOTES THIS CONCEPT OF TEACHING KIDS TO BE THERE FOR EACH OTHER. THE FOUNDATION ALSO WORKS HARD TO TEACH PARENTS AND ADULTS TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE TEENAGERS TODAY ARE GENERALLY LIVING IN A MUCH MORE DIFFICULT WORLD - YES MORE OPPORTUNITIES EXIST, BUT WITH THESE OPPORTUNITIES COME GREAT PRESSURES THAT THEIR PARENTS FACED AT AN OLDER AGE. THE FOUNDATION FEELS IT'S IMPORTANT FOR KIDS TO HEAR THEIR PARENTS AGREE THAT "LIFE IS HARD" FOR KIDS TODAY - BUT TOGETHER THEY ARE STRONGER.
Together we CAN put a stop to Teen Suicide!!
Love Ya Man!
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