Ohio teen on the brink of suicide posts video (Bullying)

[OhioChick]

Posted: 01/05/2012

ROSS, Ohio - Courtneylyn likes taking pictures and shooting videos.

"Everyone thinks I'm a happy person because I'm always helping people and and I'm always making people smile," she says.

But for this Ross High School senior, that image was a facade.

"People find it so cool to make fun of me and to put me down and make me feel like I'm not worthy of anything," she said in a video she posted Tuesday. In the video she bares a bullied and tortured existence.

http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/teen-on-the-brink-of-suicide-posts-video1325787814426

Video at link.

[RKP5637]

1. This, is a sick country in many ways. It has all of the symptoms of being seriously ill, just the

fact that the sociological aspects of this society, the breeding, cuts down many youth with this bullying crap, and many adults just don't get it ... Bullying for the most part IMO is a learned behavior, and there are many adult examples.

[Turbineguy]

2. Don't let the creeps win!

[deutsey]

3. I'm so relieved to hear that people are reaching out to her

and she seems to be turning it around.

[OhioBlue]

4. It is encouraging that she found positive support

after she posted the video.

It is also so sad that she felt so much despair.

I'm sure many of us can remember what our teenage years were like and they were definitely difficult enough without bullying. I am amazed at how well some children and young adults are able to cope.