Insult someone..a felony?

[jimmyc]

Looks I did a lot of things that my parents never found out about when I was 13, but there are signs and symptoms of severe depression that can be seen.  I mean according to your name you were in the Marines so I know you went to the same boring Suicide Training Classes I took.  This is shoplifting or sneaking out.

since you went to the "boring suicide classes", you should know that depressed people don't all have the same symptoms.  the obvious "your fellow Marine is crying and giving away all his stuff" is rarely the way it works.  when i was stationed in VA, A Marine who know one thought was depressed shot himself on the side of the road on his way home on leave.  should have stayed awake during those safety stand downs.  p.s. as the parent of 3 teens, you can't know everything they are doing or feeling no matter how involved you are with your kids

[Kalrock]

since you went to the "boring suicide classes", you should know that depressed people don't all have the same symptoms.  the obvious "your fellow Marine is crying and giving away all his stuff" is rarely the way it works.  when i was stationed in VA, A Marine who know one thought was depressed shot himself on the side of the road on his way home on leave.  should have stayed awake during those safety stand downs.  p.s. as the parent of 3 teens, you can't know everything they are doing or feeling no matter how involved you are with your kids

I understand that not every case of depression is apparent, but my main point in all of this is that I would blame myself for my child's death if they committed suicide.  I would probably blame myself no matter how they died.  I would always feel like there could have been something more I could have done.

Overall I really wish these kinds of things didn't happen to kids.  It really does bother me when bad things happen to children and I hope that everyone out their with kids never has to go through something like this.