‘No one is going to come to your funeral’: Police examine amicable media messages to suicidal youth

A sorrowful mom from a northern Ontario First Nation is pity a hate-filled amicable media messages her 12-year-old daughter perceived on a day of her genocide by suicide, in hopes of saving a lives of other girls in her community.

“If I’d seen those earlier, if she showed them to me, we consider we could have finished something, attempted to speak to her, not to trust those words,” Sandra Fox told CBC News.

Fox’s daughter, Chantel, died by self-murder early in Jan in Wapekeka First Nation, a few days after her friend, Jolynn Winter, also 12, died by suicide. Several other girls from a community, about 600 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, Ont., sojourn on self-murder watch and during slightest dual of them have also perceived messages enlivening them to kill themselves.

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Screen shots of a messages, with some of a identifying information obscured, were performed by CBC News. 

One of a messages perceived by Chantel Fox, 12, on a day she died by suicide, according to her mother, Sandra Fox. (CBC)

They seem to issue from 3 opposite amicable media accounts that relatives from Wapekeka and amicable workers endangered with a village trust issue outward a First Nation and might have been sent underneath fake names.

Sandra Fox says during slightest one other lady from Wapekeka, who is now on self-murder watch, has perceived messages like this one. (CBC)

“I’m usually endangered so that it won’t happen to anybody else’s kid, what happened to my daughter,” Fox said.

Earlier this week, Fox pronounced she was disturbed that military weren’t holding a matter seriously. On Friday, she told CBC News that officers had followed adult with her.

“They’re finally doing something,” Fox pronounced after a revisit to a military hire in Thunder Bay, where she sealed recover papers permitting officers to entrance a amicable media accounts on both of her daughters’ tablets.

The mom of another girl, who is demonstrating suicidal behaviour, also spoke to military about messages her daughter has been receiving, Fox said. 

A third lady from Wapekeka, also during risk of suicide, is removing a hate-filled messages, too, she said.

Provincial military will usually contend they are investigating, though refused to provide any serve details.

Some immature people are regulating Facebook as a diary, withdrawal them unprotected and vulnerable, says Valerie Ooshag, a mental health workman in Eabametoong First Nation. (Jody Porter/CBC)

A mental health solicitor who works with First Nations girl in a same area pronounced that immature people are too mostly regulating Facebook as a diary, that leaves them unprotected and vulnerable.

“Sometimes people on amicable media usually find your problems are entertainment, and we find that unequivocally sad,” Valerie Ooshag said. “I’ve seen some nasty things on Facebook, like people revelation people to kill themselves. It’s usually horrible.”

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Creating girl centres in First Nations where immature people can strech out for assistance to mental health counsellors in person could assistance quell a problem of children divulgence too most online, she said.

Since those resources aren’t accessible in Wapekeka or Eabametoong, where Ooshag works, she offering these difference of recommendation to immature people who might be tempted to exhibit their suicidal thoughts online:

“There are people that caring about we that will listen to you, not usually reading it on a Facebook status,” she said.

Where to get help

Kids Help Phone – 1-800-668-6868 (Phone), Live Chat (online discuss counselling) — visit www.kidshelpphone.ca

Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention: Find a 24-hour predicament centre

Health Canada’s toll-free‎ series for a First Nations and Inuit Hope for Wellness Help Line is 1-855-242-3310.‎

If you’re disturbed someone we know might be during risk of suicide, we should speak to them, says the Canadian Association of Suicide Prevention. Here are some warning signs: 

• Suicidal thoughts.
• Substance abuse.
• Purposelessness.
• Anxiety.
• Feeling trapped.
• Hopelessness and helplessness.
• Withdrawal.
• Anger.
• Recklessness.
• Mood changes.

Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/social-media-suicide-1.3963322?cmp=rss