It Gets Better Project « Misleading
“Depression is a disease of loneliness, and the privacy of a depressed person is not a dignity; it is a prison. […] No one who has known someone who killed himself can feel free of the burden of guilt. A suicide is the failure of a thousand chances to help, of everyone’s capacity to save the person who has died.”
**Just telling young people that “IT GETS BETTER” shirks the responsibility we adults (who survived our darkest teen years as queers) have to talk to young people about mental health and depression. These are the conversations that will help “a [queer kid, who’s] considered suicide when the rainbow is [not] enough…”
This is where our energy should be. [-bLaK.]
(via genderinfinite)
