I'm okay, now V. Thank you, and everyone for the kind thoughts. I was just reeling from the news this morning. My heart aches for her family and people in her daily life who will feel her absence dramatically.
My daughter had heard about it via FB, on the bus ride home. She wept a bit with me, and seems okay. She wanted to know what and how. I don't like telling her those things. Having had her threaten to take her own life a few years ago I hate supplying her with such info. But I told her what I know and said I hoped that she never feels that way again, and if she does, think of all the people who love this girl, and how heartbroken they all are, and how much they would have helped her if she had let them know. She understands.
Mark, you are so right, so many stories like this. Not too many successful suicides here, that I hear about, but so much stress, anxiety, and kids needing treatment, my own included.
I have 2-3 close friends who I know have had similar issues with daughters, actually, not boys. On meds for depression, one is bipolar, and one was cutting.
What's happening to our kids? I know much of the back story about this young woman, who died. Cyber bullying was involved at one time. My own daughter was pushed ot the brink by mean girls a time or two.