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is a very serious problem, and it happens too often for us to ignore. I have always been interested in the different things involved in and what would cause a person to kill themselves, but have never had the time to find out, until now. I used to think ....

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.... thought if someone wanted to kill themselves it would be hard to fail. That's when I figured she didn't really want to die. It was a cry for help, and she didn't know of any other way to ask for it. I stayed a week with her through this trying period in her life, and found out it was partly because of her French exchange student boyfriend. They weren't broken up, but he had to go back to France, and she couldn't see him as much as she would have liked to. Her mother started taking her to a psychiatrist to help her through her depression. If we hadn't have done this she might not be with us today. Now, she has a fairly normal life. She has a j ....