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The body of little Tori Blair Wilson was discovered just 80 yards from her house near Palestine, East Texas, after she went missing from a neighborhood barbecue.
Following a weeks-long investigation, an autopsy has now revealed the second-grader died from suicide by hanging.
It also found the pretty eight-year-old had talked about suicide in the past, once even putting her head in a noose in front of one of her friends.
That is awful, but I fail to see how an examination of an 8 year old girl would take all that long.
I'm hearing about kids who are depressed/suicidal being younger and younger. This is sad, but not completely unique.
No idea. Palestine is a small town in a small county...maybe that has something to do with it.
No idea. Palestine is a small town in a small county...maybe that has something to do with it.
Any theories on way depression is presenting itself in such young children?
I can't speak for the area in the article, but near me, I see a couple of reasons:
1) Competition to succeed is VERY high. This is mostly projected from the parents onto the kids. Even at that age, I've see parents give punishments if a kid doesn't get an "A".
2) Kids today are WAY overschedules. Soccer on Monday. Karate on Tuesdsay. Tutoring on Wednesday. Dance/Art/Voice/Music on Thursday. CCD/Hebrew School on Friday. Weekends for games for the sports they are involved in. Kids have zero free time just to be kids and are expected to attend all of these things. I read an article, a while back on this. Do you know what percentage of kids stick with activities that they start before the age of 12? 10%. Think about that.
3) Too much structured time with parents, too little "hang out"/emotional time with parents. Everything is about performance, not about who the kid is.
These are the major factors that I see.
I can't even fathom a lifestyle like that for my kids....when I have them. That's scary.
I know, but it's SO commonplace around here. I know of practically no kids that don't have a schedule like that.
Any theories on way depression is presenting itself in such young children?
I can't speak for the area in the article, but near me, I see a couple of reasons:
1) Competition to succeed is VERY high. This is mostly projected from the parents onto the kids. Even at that age, I've see parents give punishments if a kid doesn't get an "A".
2) Kids today are WAY overschedules. Soccer on Monday. Karate on Tuesdsay. Tutoring on Wednesday. Dance/Art/Voice/Music on Thursday. CCD/Hebrew School on Friday. Weekends for games for the sports they are involved in. Kids have zero free time just to be kids and are expected to attend all of these things. I read an article, a while back on this. Do you know what percentage of kids stick with activities that they start before the age of 12? 10%. Think about that.
3) Too much structured time with parents, too little "hang out"/emotional time with parents. Everything is about performance, not about who the kid is.
These are the major factors that I see.
I dont know brother...I see the stressed out hyperdrive types...but they are few and far between. In my last 24 hours (7p Thursday to 7p Friday) I saw 4, 14, 17, 18 (mentally retarded), 20, 24, 27 37 year olds. Not a one of the was on the fast track for success. The 27 year old was (on the surface) a relatively high functioning housewife. Not too far beneath the surface...Maslows testament.
Might be Im a little jaded tonight. I need a break. But I read the article cited on the OP and there were on that same web page 3 stellar examples of parenthood in action...More extreme...but in the right neighborhood.
Don't know why I am thinking of this - but kids in my old neighborhood don't play in the streets anymore. They're indoors and on the internet, or playing video games.
It's hard for me to judge the newer generation because I am fairly removed from them, but it seems like there's a growing disconnect.
Our children are not meant to be put into schedule factories to be crammed full of disciplined things. Kids need fun and frankly so do adults. Life is not supposed to be SO serious all the time otherwise it gets soul crushing.
Any theories on way depression is presenting itself in such young children?
We should not have a World in which little 8 year old children are in so much inner pain that they hang themselves
More and more young people are killing themselves and as adults it is up to us all to do better so that these children do not feel this damn helpless. It does take a village and adults (even childless) need to try to figure this out and it is up to adults to help, to save and to protect these children.
And we need to STOP BULLYING! END IT!
And we need to STOP BULLYING! END IT!
Most that I see fall into a couple of categories:
1) Pushed towards success/perfectionism.
2) Lack of attention due to other family issues (parentified child)
3) Lack of acceptance by parents (often with sexuality issues, but also certain career/school/activity choices).
4) Some sort of verbal/physical/sexual/emotional abuse from parents or others, including bullying.
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