I recently chatted to a friend who told me that she had suffered really bad post-natal depression. She had had a really bad time for a while and none of her friends knew about it. I felt really sorry for her, not that that helps now because she is mostly over it. Yesterday I read about a 16 year old who got hold of his dad's gun and shot himself so he didn't have to go back to boarding school. This morning I read about a 17 year old who threw herself in front of a train because she felt guilty about waisting her mom's money after failing a grade. There are often stories of teenage moms dumping babies in latrines or worse or simply abandoning them. On a different kind of extreme I've recently read the blogs of people running away from church (the institution), because they believe it is no longer looking like what God intended it to look like. The sadness for me is that while I can understand the frustration and disillusionment I do not unde...
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