Topics

"We avoid the topics.                                           

We make the kids have secrets

and when they are exposed

and everyone else knows.

We'll say we never knew it,

that they had a problem.

If we would have known,

we surely would have solved it"-Topics By Nevertheless

This song is so moving for me. It really is true though. Adults don't know how to talk to kids about to depression, sex, pregnancy, drugs, self-harm, and just emotions all together. A lot of teenagers don't know true facts about what they are going through. There are so many depressed teens that are so lost and all they really need is someone to talk to.

I personally know people my age that deal with things that they should not have to. They get depressed and lost and they turn to the wrong things. I know so many people that escape by having sex. I think that's why their are so many teenage pregnancies. A lot of teens see "love" in sex. They want to feel loved because maybe they feel like their not getting any at home.

Self-harm is another huge problem. Every person that does this has a different reason. Some reasons are, they see the cuts as letting all their confused emotions out, or they do it because they feel like its the only thing they can control, another reason is they feel like they need to be punished for something. There are so many more reasons.

I feel like if we all just talked about whats going on and if adults were more understanding of these problems then we could solve them. Teens usually just need someone they really feel like they can talk to and they need someone to give them trustworthy advice.