According to studies, one in five teenagers have quite serious thoughts about suicide. Most teens who have attempted suicide almost always give a warning about their intention: they say, do something that serves as a hint, they warn that they are in a hopeless situation and think about death. This is a quote from the "18 Notebooks of Salvation" project "You are not alone", produced with the support of the Open Society Institute. They are intended for pod-teens, and in English Young adults - young adults. The author of the project, professor, doctor of philological sciences Nina Mikhailovna Demurova, who has been studying English literature all her life, has long noticed that in Russia there are almost no books devoted to the problems of youth. In England, there is a whole direction of "rescue books", otherwise it is called "bibliotherapy".
Elena VRONO, child psychiatrist, author of one of the "books of salvation" "Caution: Life!", writes about how to recognize the signs of suicide.
You can't force the intellect. When a child is forced to do something for which he has no acceptance, the vitality decreases. The longest period of time in which he is able to work in a situation of violence is 15 minutes, then fatigue accumulates, and he is simply unable to perceive information. Parents create painful situations for children due to the existing system. It seems to them that in such power relations is the key to salvation from the army, if we are talking about a boy. A pledge of a worthy future for children. Everyone wants children to be like everyone else, decide everything like everyone else, do everything like everyone else. And sometimes they can do something better than anyone else, but they don’t meet the basic components and standards ...
I am deeply convinced that all the so-called teenage exacerbations are associated with exacerbations of adults who do not forgive any, sometimes even physical, shortcomings to their own children ... Just yesterday I heard a mother shouting to her son: “You are below everyone, you are not even tall, where are you going!”
Of course, this is an extreme case. But all our words addressed to them on other occasions, listen, don't they sound the same?