I'm glad you did survive those trying periods.
Yesterday, a friend shared some news about a 12 year-old boy who committed suicide by swallowing a pesticide. He immediately attributed it to some spiritual stuff. It took me an hour to convince my friend that kids do go through hard times too. Your story corroborated my claim. I'll be showing him your post tomorrow so that he will understand my points and learn to look out for his kids.
Oh my!!! Yes, please. Ask your friend to keep an eye of him or any of his children. Kids do experience depression too. It's not just the adults. A relative of mine's kid also committed suicide, and he was only between 9-12. This happened a few years back tho.
Mental health issues for kids is very real, we often overlook it because we assume they are still too little to understand. Thank you for this enlightening piece.
And thank you for reading this and for sharing your thoughts about it.
You are welcome, ma'am. I'm actually the one who is richly blessed with this piece, it led me down some paths I never really thought existed before now. I've been more careful with my little ones ever since.