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I am keeping Tina!
I think many of you know i work in intensive care for pediatrics. we had an awful thing happen in our unit and i wanted to share it here. There is going to be a shielding of sex and info, due to protection of individual health info which i can't share.
we had a teenager who hung themselves and eventually died in our unit after they posted a pic of themselves on myspace and some other lovely people found the need to inform this person they found them "fat' (read into this unacceptable).
Now, while i am not saying it is only this that caused the child to kill themselves, it was a huge part of it, and the catalyst for this child's death.
when are we, as a society, made up of a majority of fat people...going to rise up and say enough.
enough to laughing at people who are different in any way than you.
enough of the bullying.
enough of the disrespect.
enough of tolerating the berating that society feels is ok.
Talk to your sons and daughters, let them know it is never acceptable to hurt another human with words. We have to find and make a stand at some point.
Talk to your kids too and let them know that if they feel sad or depressed, there are people to talk to. Teenage suicide is a huge killer of our kids.
thanks for letting me get this off my chest, it has been a heavy burden for two days now.
we had a teenager who hung themselves and eventually died in our unit after they posted a pic of themselves on myspace and some other lovely people found the need to inform this person they found them "fat' (read into this unacceptable).
Now, while i am not saying it is only this that caused the child to kill themselves, it was a huge part of it, and the catalyst for this child's death.
when are we, as a society, made up of a majority of fat people...going to rise up and say enough.
enough to laughing at people who are different in any way than you.
enough of the bullying.
enough of the disrespect.
enough of tolerating the berating that society feels is ok.
Talk to your sons and daughters, let them know it is never acceptable to hurt another human with words. We have to find and make a stand at some point.
Talk to your kids too and let them know that if they feel sad or depressed, there are people to talk to. Teenage suicide is a huge killer of our kids.
thanks for letting me get this off my chest, it has been a heavy burden for two days now.
