When Hope Eludes You

WHEN HOPE ELUDES YOU

There are days when we are sad and cannot find peace from 

within. It is the struggle from day to day, the not knowing 

how well we can cope, that makes this struggle so very 

unpredictable, and difficult to forecast. No matter how tough 

the bad days are, we have to always fight for hope.

There is tragedy all around us, in every newspaper, on every 

news forecast. We cannot think that our tragedy is the first 

or worst, nor will it be the last. We are alive, and for that 

we must be grateful and continue to live our life. Some days

can just be so painful that we are tempted to contemplate it 
as our last.

During those times of intense pain, reach out to a friend and 

hold on tight.. Everybody needs love and support, sometimes 

just more severely and often. There is great regret when you 

let life's problems make you want to give up.I assure you there 

is no glory or victory in volunteering for a premature 
coffin.

So no matter how bad times may now seem, hold on to the positive in your life. Bad days have a way of drifting away and one day 

it will be difficult to recall. Broken hearts have an amazing 

way of healing, so this pain is really fleeting. Everyone gets 

occasionally discouraged, but only you can prohibit your own
fall.

by: Warsawa
    6-29-96

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Once-Concussed Teenagers Found to Be at Higher Risk for Bullying, Suicide

By Bryan Toporek on April 15, 2014 8:36 PM

Teenagers who have suffered a traumatic brain injury such as a concussion are twice as likely to be bullied and roughly three times as likely to attempt suicide compared to those who haven't, according to a new study published online today in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.

The study drew upon data from the 2011 Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey, which contains responses from nearly 9,300 students between grades 7 and 12 in 181 publicly funded schools across Ontario. Questions about traumatic brain injuries were added to the OSDUHS for the first time in 2011 and were answered by a subsample of 4,816 students.

The teenagers were asked whether they had ever suffered a head injury that resulted in them being unconscious for at least five minutes or required at least one night's stay in a hospital. Just under 20 percent of the students involved in the study had suffered at least one head injury that met either of those qualifications.

According to the OSDUHS data, teenagers who have suffered a concussion are at "significantly greater odds" of engaging in a variety of high-risk behavior, including intentionally damaging property, theft of more than $50, setting a fire, running away from home, breaking into a locked building, intentionally hurting someone, carrying a weapon, and getting into a fight at school. They're also more likely to become bullies, to have sought counseling through a crisis help-line or to have been prescribed medication for anxiety, depression, or both.

"These results show that preventable brain injuries and mental health and behavioral problems among teens continue to remain a blind spot in our culture," said Gabriela Ilie, the lead author of the study and a post-doctoral fellow at St. Michael's Hospital, in a statement. "These kids are falling through the cracks."

Teenagers who have suffered a concussion also tend to be victimized by peers more frequently than those who haven't endured a traumatic brain injury. They had twice the odds of being bullied at school or via the Internet and almost three times the odds of being threatened at school with a weapon.

The findings "point to the need for primary health-care providers, as well as schools, to be aware of the potential comorbid conditions affecting the health and well-being of young people who have suffered [traumatic brain injuries]," Ilie and her colleagues conclude.

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