But if you never try, you'll never know just what you're worth.

You know what, I actually started writing a blog.. But then I decided that I wanted to change the topic about what to write about.. 

What I'm going to write about may not effect everybody reading this, but it effects millions of people in the U.S.A. 

Basically, I'm going to write about suicide, drug and alcohol addiction, and self abuse. 

Before I actually hit on those three subjects, I need to talk about a few things and explain a few things. 

First off, I need to talk about feelings. Everybody has feelings. Weather they want to admit it or not.. Most times, people think 'if I show my feelings, people will think I'm weak.' Let me be the first to say, sharing your feelings does not, in anyway, show a weak person. Being able to share your feelings and openly talk about them show a STRONG person. "Why?" you may ask, well, let me explain.. When you hold your feelings in, its mainly because you're scare of the reactions people may give you.. But when you share your feelings, you need to be bold to do that. Now, don't go around telling the world how you feel, find someone you REALLY trust and talk to them. 

You may be wondering how feelings relate to the subject of suicide, addiction, and self abuse.. Well, here's the part where I get to that! 

Many times, when a person holds their feeling in, they have the feeling that they are alone and there's nobody for them to talk to. When a person feels this way, sometimes they begin to hurt themselves because they feel as if things are their fault; they want to feel physical pain for all the emotional pain they feel..The pain is their escape from reality.. 

Like people say after you do drugs for the first time, you never get that same high, the same feeling.. Well, self abuse is like that.. You never feel the same release of pain you do the first time.. Many times, this leads to people trying drugs... 

Drugs are a very addictive thing.. Like I just said, people never get the same hight they get the first time, so every use after the first is a person trying to find the same high again. 

After many first time uses of different drugs, a person because physically and emotionally drained.. They may run out of drugs and they get a thought to kill themselves, so they act on that. 

Now, I'm not saying that a person goes through self abuse and drugs before the idea of suicide pops up in their head, sometimes thats a person first thought. 

They are emotionally hurting so bad that they think the only way to escape that is by death.. 

Little do they know that them killing themselves hurts everybody around them.. 

I've heard many of times that suicide is selfish, and I would have to be inclined to agree.. Killing yourself is a selfish thing to do. You're SO caught up in yourself and the fact that you think that nobody loves you (or whatever your problem may be,) that you forget, or don't see, how many people around you genuinely care about you. 

Sadly, after you kill yourself, you will never be able to see how you effect other people and how they love you.. 

Not only is suicide selfish, its sad.. Doesn't it just make you sad to know that a person honestly was hurting so bad and they killed themselves? Personally, I think its awfully sad.. 

Here are some facts and statistics about drugs, alcohol, self abuse, suicide, and depression 

"In 2007, suicide was the third leading cause of death for young people ages 15 to 24.¹ Of every 100,000 young people in each age group, the following number died by suicide:¹

• Children ages 10 to 14 — 0.9 per 100,000
• Adolescents ages 15 to 19 — 6.9 per 100,000
• Young adults ages 20 to 24 — 12.7 per 100,000
• All illegal drugs combined kill under 20,000 per year, or a small percent of the number killed by alcohol and tobacco. 
• 1,360,000 Drug Prisoners in America 
• 1.7 million Americans are incarcerated in prisons or jails, more per capita than any other nation. 
• Nearly 80% of all prisoners in America are for drug related offenses.
• Ten million people have been arrested for marijuana since 1965.
• Cocaine kills about 2,500 
• Heroin kills about 2,000
• Aspirin kills about 2,000 
• By the time they are high school seniors, 80% have used alcohol and 62% have been drunk.
•  In the United States, roughly 50,000 cases of alcohol poisoning are reported each year, and approximately once every week, someone dies from this preventable condition.
• In 2002, U.S. alcoholism statistics reported that 2.6 million binge drinkers were between the ages of 12 and 17.
• 56% of students in grades 5 through 12 say that alcohol advertising encourages them to drink.
• Alcoholism and alcohol abuse are the third leading cause of the preventable deaths in the United States.
• Three million americans engage in some form of self injury
• 90% of self injurers begin cutting as teenagers.
• The average self injurer begins at age fourteen and continues with increasing severity into her late twenties.
• More than half of self injurers are victims of abuse, and most report emotionally abusive or neglictful childhoods.
• Most people who self injure are not trying to commit suicide, instead using self injury as a coping mechanism.
• Self injury does become an addiction as it helps you feel better for a short period of time.
• Self injury is only a temperory solution. Self injury makes you feel better, but only for a short period of time. The only way to feel better for longer, is to develop coping mechanisms. (some of which are under the heading alternatives)
• Although there are a few exceptions, most people who self harm aren't "crazy". They just have a lot of inner stress that needs to be released and they don't have any other way to release it than hurt themselves. 
• Depressive disorders affect approximately 18.8 million American adults or about 9.5% of the U.S. population age 18 and older in a given year. This includes major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, and bipolar disorder.
• The rate of increase of depression among children is an astounding 23% p.a.
• 54% of people believe depression is a personal weakness.
• 41% of depressed women are too embarrassed to seek help.
• 80% of depressed people are not currently having any treatment.
• 15% of depressed people will commit suicide.
• Depression will be the second largest killer after heart disease by 2020 -- and studies show depression is a contributory factor to fatal coronary disease.
• ALL THESE FACTS ARE FROM THE INTERNET. I DON'T TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEM!!