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Since the 1960s, the rate of suicide among adolescents has tripled. Suicide is now the second leading cause of death for those between 15 and 24. These shocking statistics make it clear that young people need help learning how to survive their hard times.
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I was in 10th grade and walking through
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the halls in school and just feeling
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overwhelmed by everything and feeling
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like no one cared and and I mean things
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were so everything was so exaggerated I
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was so depressed that indifference was
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it was a huge huge emotion I could I
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could it was almost a cent of
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indifference that’s that’s how bad it
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had gotten that’s how low I was that it
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seemed like no one cared at all and all
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I could think about was ending the pain
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six my older brothers eight we were all
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supposed to be going to my father’s
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parents place in Philadelphia and my mom
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had been in a mood that day didn’t end
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up coming my brother my father and I
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went and when we got back homes in New
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Jersey that night we pulled up in the
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driveway and garage light was on Rogers
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filled with smoke and she was in the
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Volkswagen bug in the garage and had
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asphyxiated herself so my dad ran to the
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garage and pulled up the garage door and
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there was you know she was long gone by
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that point and then we stayed across the
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street at the neighbors for a few days
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because the house was too filled with
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smoke to go back to
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I remember
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