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TEENS 101: DEPRESSION AND SELF-HARM – BRITTANY’S STORY
From: TEENS 101 – Video Series
-For grades 8-12
–Video with Printable Teacher’s Guide
-Free online video streaming included!
-Released in 2017At the age of 14, following a quarrel with a friend of hers from school, Brittany turned to her mother for comfort. Instead, her mother lashed out at her calling her selfish. From that day on, Brittany began to internalize her feelings. Her insecurities grew and she turned to drugs and alcohol. At a party with friends from school, her excessive drinking led to sexual abuse. This made things worse. She began to engage in self-harm practice, cutting her arms regularly. The depressed she got, the worse the self-inflicted harm became until she was hospitalized for it.
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TEENS 101: DON’T DISS MY ABILITIES – MICHELLE’S STORY
From: TEENS 101 – Video Series
-For grades 8-12
–Video with Printable Teacher’s Guide
-Free online video streaming included!
-Released in 2017As a child and teenager, Michelle endured a series of events that was nothing short of soul-crushing. She faced sexual abuse as a child and kept it a secret over the years. At the age of sixteen, she acquired a brain disease that rendered her blind. Her so-called friends bullied her at school. She fell into a deep depression and turned to drugs, alcohol, and self-harm to number her pain, but nothing seemed to help. She felt her only option was suicide. Thankfully a miraculous turn of events saved her life and now this remarkable young woman faces all of her adversity with such positive energy that it’s become infectious and humbling to all that know and love her.
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