Having experienced something like your daughter and also having experienced feeling like I had no one in this world and wanting to just leave it, I believe we can and should do whatever we can to help any who might also feel that way.

It's sad to me that so many do not realize that all those terrible times happen to most of us and that we also have feelings of wanting to end it. I talked and talked to my children so they knew they could come to me when and if they ever felt that way. It happened to my youngest son in senior high and luckily he came to me about it. I called the 'teacher's' [who was also a pillar in the community] son and told him he better make things right or I was going to the police and principle and then we were going to have a big sit down with both his parents. Needless to say I scared him and he made it right but by that time he had ruined what should have been some of the best times in my son's life. Some kids can be so damn cruel out of noting more than jealousy.

I remember when I was young my brother telling me if you want to kill yourself do not slice your wrist on the bottom side but that you should slice it on the top of the wrist that way you'll die faster and before they can get to you. I really despised him for telling me that. I never tried it but it was always there in my mind when things got really bad.

SG