LEAVING YOUR CHILDREN SOMETHING TO LOVE BY/ THE DANGERS OF FLUNKING SEX EDUCATION: DEPRESSION
Depression: I mentioned earlier that there is a direct relationship between feelings of loneliness and isolation and serious depression. The sexual needs of the developing person cry out for direction and understanding, for discussion and focus. Adolescent suicide is dangerously increasing, in part because sexual feelings in our young people are not tolerated and have few safe avenues for expression.
There are many myths about teen depression and suicide. If they threaten it, they won’t do it. If they are active andjnvolved, they won’t do it. If they are doing well in school, they won’t do it. If they come from a good home, they won’t do it. These statements are false. If you are worried, there is reason to worry, so reach out now. It is éîã just depressed people who kill themselves. Agitated, afraid, worried, insecure, hyperactive people kill themselves, too. Healthy sexuality is a key part of making it through the stress of young adulthood. Wrong turns on the love maps of these young people can result in death through sexual experimentation gone wrong. Some adolescents hang themselves to cause a high related to lack of oxygen while masturbating, failing at the last moment to control the lack of oxygen. This cause of death is known to all clinicians, but is not often talked about. The sexual problem, called asphyxiophilia, is one of the so-called paraphilias, problems with relationships and loving sexuality. We might hear the comment, “He never said anything at all to me about being really that upset,” after a young person has killed himself, because what he might have said was not something we wanted to hear or were too uncomfortable to allow him to tell us.
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