I just wanna reply with my (probably) unconventional views: GOOD! Hey, I have a MySpace, and there's this little button that says "Block User", or something to that affect. If you're getting bothered by someone, just click that little button, and *poof* problem's gone. Don't hang yourself over this. Plus, she was 13! MySpace isn't gonna be the end of the world! "Ooohh, this random person is saying unkind things about me. I think I'll kill myself!" Doesn't really make a whole lot of sense when you talk it through. In my eyes, the only time suicide makes sense is when the person who wants to off themselves has a very painful, terminal illness that will eventually kill them anyway. Who gives a crap about what this one random dude is saying to you? There's probably gonna be at least 10 people who are gonna say the exact opposite.

Someone seriously needed to slap this girl and get all up in her face and say, "IGNORE IT! IT'S NOT GONNA RUIN YOUR LIFE FOREVER!" I mean, what, was someone 15 years in the future gonna say, "You know, you're lovely and all, but I just can't date you because this Bad word posted on MySpace that you had bad taste in clothes when you were 13."? Insane.

Yes, this story is sad, but she must have been struggling with other things in her life before this happened because just a girl on mysapce doing that to her couldn't be the only thing that caused her to commit suicide.

But its never happened to me before(and lets hope it doesn't to any of us)so I don't know her point of view of what happened.

Second, like I said, this girl suffered from clinical depression, which can be quite serious.

I really hate people who say they're depressed, especially when they are whiny little rich girls who get everything they want.

Theres nothing in this world to be OH-SO DEPRESSED about to the point that you kill yourself.

The thought of suicide, IMHO, is the inability to think things through. Is your life so bad that killing yourself would be worth all of the emotional and physical trauma your family, friends and media hounds go through because of it?

That's funny. I seem to remember you threatening to kill yourself last year, Cola. My, how far you've come that you can now sit in judgment of someone else!

Yes, because once I realized that making life worse for everyone else was alot better than making my life seem like the worst, I owned up and said "Screw the man!"

Thus came Pink Floyd. I think... Might have been death metal.

Also, if I can't sit in judgment of someone else, why can you sit in judgment of me?

Yes, because once I realized that making life worse for everyone else was alot better than making my life seem like the worst, I owned up and said "Screw the man!"

Thus came Pink Floyd. I think... Might have been death metal.

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You are a horrible person.

This girl was clinically depressed. Jeez. Have a little sympathy.

2. While I'm glad that you and Cola manage to overcome your problems, you're still not facing the reality: clinical depression is a killer. And quite frankly, I seriously doubt that you really understand it nearly as well as you think you do. Otherwise, I might think you would be able to show some compassion on someone suffering from it.

3. Do you have a doctorate in clinical psychology?

And that, Cola, shows that you know absolutely nothing on the subject. Try doing some reading sometime.

Just because you're a first-class jerk who knows how to buck the system doesn't prove anything. Just because you find that you can hide behind false diagnoses of medical conditions does not prove that those conditions aren't real in other people. If anything, it only proves that you are a jerk.

Yes, because calling someone a jerk in a debate clearly raises your credibility.

Second, all theese are are just veils of common things everyone goes through shrouded in words that psychiatrist use to tell parents that their kids are either dumb, bored with life, or show no interest in interacting with other kids.

Third...

No, its not like that. Anyone, While people wish it was, all they can do is take their kids and self to the psychiatrist to get prescribed for pills that they don't even need, just to try and make them seem "Normal."

And one more thing, you don't need pills to cure depression. You just need to talk to someone, own up to yourself, and realize that you're only making yourself feel worse by letting it take a hold of you.

And considering that you started your posting in this thread essentially rejoicing at the girl's death, I can't help but feel your opinion carries about as much weight as pocket lint. My advice to you: go back to your bridge and wait for the goats.

But the question is, what is normal?

Second, all these are are just veils of common things everyone goes through shrouded in words that psychiatrist use to tell parents that their kids are either dumb, bored with life, or show no interest in interacting with other kids.

Also, you're pretty much saying that the normal American family is a white Husband, Wife, and two kids; boy and a girl, the girls is into unicorns and pink, and the boy is into baseball and playing videogames; the wife knows her place and stays at home to do house work, and feed the kids, make dinner, and all that good stuff, and that the husband goes off to work, comes home at five in a business suit and hat, is greeted at the door by his loving wife and kids, while dinner has just be set down on the table, hot and fresh and awaiting his return, and everyone is happy and explains their problems to each other so that everyone may get along.

And one more thing, you don't need pills to cure depression. You just need to talk to someone, own up to yourself, and realize that you're only making yourself feel worse by letting it take a hold of you.

So, OK. I feel bad for this girl, but I can't help thinking it's just as much her parents' fault as it is the other family. If you can't see the level of unhappiness and depression that your kid is having because of unhealthy online relationships, and you don't do anything to remedy the situation, this is the kind of thing that can happen.

Now, there was a time I thought as Cola and DaThnikka, that a person who suffered such depression just needed to get over it.

[All of these "diseases" like ADD, Asperges, Clinical Depression, ADHD, they're all just excuses doctors give to children who aren't in the considered realm of normality. But the question is, what is normal? Is it normal for a kid to lack a social life? No, its not, so they classify it as Asperges. Is it normal for a kid to not pay attention to things they don't want to listen to? No, so they classify it as ADD. What about the same thing, except the child has alot of energy and is always moving? Nope, ADHD right there.

...I hate you.

Look. I suffer from ADHD and Asperger's, and I find what you just said to be unbelievably offensive. Do some frickin' RESEARCH.

The disorder typically presents itself during childhood, and is characterized by a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity, as well as forgetfulness, poor impulse control or impulsivity, and distractibility.

Yeah, that's really cool, Cola.

Too bad it has absofreakinglutely jack crap to do with depression.

Clinical depression =/= ADHD