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lynne

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16. This isn't about bullying. It's about mental illness.

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Thu May 17, 2012, 09:32 AM

May 2012

Watch her video. She admits she began harming herself years ago. States she sees an imaginary person who's her best friend. She was diagnosed as anorexic. She says she's tried to commit suicide many times over numerous years.

Also that she's been hospitalized numerous times and the article refers to counseling. Obviously, her illness was known and her parents tried to help her. She certainly wasn't ignored by either her family or her physicians.

Yes, kids can be cruel and horrible comments were posted. But, the end result is that her mental illness made her take her own life.

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900 Cries For Help... Now She's Dead [View all] MrScorpio May 2012 OP

Recommending. Cooley Hurd May 2012 #1

K&R. This is so unspeakably sad... Rhiannon12866 May 2012 #2

Jesus. What can one say? GliderGuider May 2012 #3

there are so many bullies SemperEadem May 2012 #4

OMG!!!!!!!! NT mfcorey1 May 2012 #5

Horribly sad, and even worse that .. Myrina May 2012 #6

Parents need to monitor their kids' computers. Also, is the Christian Right secondwind May 2012 #7

In MI they tried to pass an "Anti-Bullying" law that exempted bullies of LGBT catbyte May 2012 #11

It looks like she had some serious mental health issues that they hadn't yet found solutions for. Brickbat May 2012 #8

I agree, but... get the red out May 2012 #9

Years of being mocked, ridiculed, told your ugly, etc. can do that to you magical thyme May 2012 #13

magical thyme, I don't have any clever advice or anything, but I can relate to your story. Romulox May 2012 #15

It's tragic but 19 seems old to be bullied catbyte May 2012 #10

there is no "too old to be bullied" magical thyme May 2012 #14

+111111111111111 Tsiyu May 2012 #17

Some of the worst bullying I've ever observed Coyote_Bandit May 2012 #18

Wow. Maybe you don't know too much about bullying. lapislzi May 2012 #19

I am a woman abolugi May 2012 #22

You can be bullied at any age and in any format. I'm 31 and was recently cyberbullied. vaberella May 2012 #24

Her parents blame anonymous people of Facebook? "NO ONE had noticed..." Romulox May 2012 #12

That was my first thought laundry_queen May 2012 #21

Sometimes you don't. My sister was bullied for 7 fuckin' years and I never thought... vaberella May 2012 #25

Sorry your sister went through that. I hope it made her stronger, somehow. Romulox May 2012 #27

This isn't about bullying. It's about mental illness. lynne May 2012 #16

Or maybe it was the bullying and the mental illness that caused this. vaberella May 2012 #26

Troubled teens and the internet Alcibiades May 2012 #20

Conservatives make the world this way by promoting selfishness Evasporque May 2012 #23

If you click the link in the OP, then click the tiny avatars MineralMan May 2012 #28