Childhood Suicide - Mother's Account. Part 2

A striking and poignant account of a mother's struggle with her son's mental illness.

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• autism
• asperger
• bipolar
• childhood
• mental
• illness
• suicide

[happynurse63]

I get the feeling this was a very sensitive child who had emotional issues. He had the weight of the world on his shoulders.

I may have missed this, but was he diagnosed with ASD?

[atwhite57]

From the description, he was clearly on the spectrum, but had a lot more going on as well. Tragic.

[sticksbass]

i think i heard cho was on anti depressants or prozac. besides before they began "medicating" kids these tragidies werent nearly so common if at all.

[atwhite57]

Antidepressants in children have been pretty extensively studies. They increase the rate of suicidal thinking a small amount (although may decrease suicide in the long run). But no one has reported an increase in violence in these studies. Risperadone has been shown to decrease aggression in autisic children.

[sticksbass]

i really believe phyciactric medications are very dangerious. all those kids who committed mass murder in there schools were on phyc. meds. and ive heard drug experts talk about how they can push people over the edge.

[atwhite57]

I don't think Cho, Virginia Tech, was on any medication. Maybe they keep people from going over the edge.

[firemarshall007]

The best thing to be is a dumb beer drinking slob at a frat house with lots of friends.

[MrLetsgotrojans]

my parents found my shooting note, and i ran out the fucking house! slept over my girlfriend's house, didn't come back to 3 a.m.

[bclagnese]

there idiots... he was making friends... so they put him in another school... yeah... his parents are the ones with the mental illness...

[blastcell]

sounds like he had Aspergers. Esp. if you listen the part 1. What I know of these special people, gestalt therapy or talk therapy is probably not the best way to go. Maybe just let them have their "loner" hobbies and respect their way of being. We need to learn to tolerate different people.

[mindlessponderer]

if you found a note from your son like that, than you would be in so much shock, sure some might go running out to find him, some might not be able to move, they called the police.

[kellygarrrett]

Why do you have to call the police to search your backyard for your suicidal child?? Why wait for a year as you watch your child regress in therapy??

[Voyeur53]

When my husband and I relaxed with our son and accepted him as he was, things got remarkably better. We don't go to therapists anymore.

[Voyeur53]

I don't want to be critical. We love our children and want what's best for them ....but with my own child, I found that the more "help" (therapy) we found for him, the worse he became. I think running around looking for someone to "help" our kids just gives them a sense that there is something "wrong" with them. It makes them feel more unaccepted and unloved.

[AZNGoSu]

I think that sometimes these things come at random times. Suicide normally happens after awhile of the person talking about suicide but this was out of the blue. really tragic.