What doesn’t help is at a kid you probably don’t know what to do with those feelings and getting attention on top of feeling terrible probably gives you some kind of relief.

When I was a kid, I use to tell people about my thoughts and I got attention because of it which felt good with how much of an outcast I felt like.

Cue me being older and the thoughts are still there and I’ve learned that there isn’t much anyone can or will do unless your at that extreme l. My family didn’t care or notice until I called them right before being admitted for trying to hang myself at work.

It’s complicated but we don’t take the youth seriously enough when the issues aren’t fully developed yet and so it festers.

People will always exploit things for attention and personal gain but it doesn’t help that we dismiss kids who have these feelings because they are kids.