Jamie Hubley, Gay 15-Year-Old Commits Suicide Due To Bullying, Depression

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Jamie Hubley, a gay 15 year old from Ottawa, Canada, committed suicide on Friday.

The 10th grade student documented his life, including his depression and the hardships of being a gay teen, in a blog, reports the Ottawa Citizen.

The blog, called "You Can't Break... When You're Already Broken" featured posts with numerous references to and photos of self harm and cutting, pictures of guys kissing and mentions of wanting a boyfriend, and bleak, ominous messages like "Sometimes I wish the breeze would just take me with it," "The only thing worse then begin hated is being ignored. At least when they hate you they treat you like you exist," and "Suicides is always an option."

Other posts revealed how difficult school was for Hubley:

"I hate being the only open gay guy in my school… It f***ing sucks, I really want to end it. Like all of it, I not getting better theres 3 more years of highschool left, Iv been on 4 different anti -depressants, none of them worked. I’v been depressed since january, How f***ing long is this going to last. People said “It gets better”. Its f***ing bull****. I go to see psychologist, What the f*** are they suppost to f***ing do? All I do is talk about problems, it doesnt make them dissapear?? I give up."

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[bluestateguy]

1. It did not get better

Now recriminations need to follow. And people who brought this about need to be punished.

[RKP5637]

4. Exactly!!! n/t

[RKP5637]

2. The good people die young and the bigots continue on. So sad. WTF is

wrong with these F'en bigots.

[Zoeisright]

3. God, these Christian fascists are a bunch of murderers.

I hate every last one of them.

[RKP5637]

5. For me, anymore, christianity is becoming a code word for

hatred, bigotry and all of the evil in the world.

[seabeyond]

6. my kids don't do the internet social network. that has been a good thing for them.

it is sad all around. so very sad.

[surrealAmerican]

11. Reading about this kid ...

... makes me think social networking could have been a help to him. He was so isolated. If he had known other gay teens, even if he couldn't find them at his school, perhaps it could have made a difference.

[get the red out]

7. I'm so sick of the carnage

And the "adults" always act like they were residing on some other planet, totally out of sight of anything going on.

[Occulus]

8. kicking

because even on DU some people call this "just common bullying" that they need to "get over".

[Behind the Aegis]

9. +1

[Occulus]

10. and again

[readmoreoften]

12. Yes but his classmates are the future generation that is going to bring us same-sex marriage

and every other possible equality. Why fight for it now when these wonderful kids have our backs in the future?

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Yes bullying is that painful

Rip kid.

[Swede]

14. Another kid that never had a chance to enjoy life.

So alone.

[InvisibleTouch]

15. I wasn't a gay teen, but I felt similarly in school...

...like the horror was never going to end. Looking back on it many years later, I realize it was only 4 years out of my life that went by relatively fast, though of course it didn't seem that way at the time. I've often wished I could go back in time and give myself that perspective from the future - what a good life I would have, how many of my dreams I would fulfill, while the dirtbags that I hated in school would be living sad, conventional little existences. Wish someone could go to these kids and give them a similar perspective on their future. That if they can just get through the bad years, interminable as they seem at the time, they'll later see that the time did pass, and it did get better.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

16. "The only thing worse then begin hated is being ignored."

So was he bullied, or ignored?

Teenagers are fragile entities. They really don't know what they want. Sometimes when you try to show them some measure of kindness, they tell you to leave them alone. It's really sad that the parents did not realize how close this kid was to the edge.