Addicted like almost every other teenager and adult that uses most social media outlets, or ya think maybe she got trapped. She was 15, not 27. For a 15 yr old, she was, for all intents and purposes, in the real world.
Two of my four daughters were bullied before they even reached grade 6.
Until someone, a parent, uncle, aunt, whatever, actually sees one of their own go through it - they have not got a clue.
The crime of my 2 daughters: they were pretty and other girls, as young as they were, would not accept that the boys were paying attention to anyone but them. It wasn't a good scene, I took the school to the top on it, and I went after the little shits parents.
All it took to help each of my kids (my oldest and then my third) was understanding and empathy along with talk, talk, talk. But sympathy - that was the last thing that they were looking for or needed - just someone to listen and understand. I went through so many nights of one, and then 6 years later the next, crying themselves to sleep and the pleads of, "Daddy...don't send me to school tomorrow."
You gotta have been there to know what it's like for our young ones....or what it can be like.
Yep, that's fucked up and kids are so unprepared emotionally for such mental violence! That's why I say they need time to reboot their perceptions, they need to be separated from the problems. If it's the Internet then it's obvious that allowing them to feed their addiction by having continued access to it is just keeping their feet to the fire! Kids who are suicidal at a very y0oung age; if they're lucky enough to have survived that phase, often realize later how utterly small their world was and how trivial their perceived life ending problems really were. They just need time to figure it out, away from the source of the pain! Like I said, she needed to be taken away from the school (which her parents did more than once) but what they failed to do was stop her having access to the sites where she was obsessed with how she was being seen. `People develop obsessions about things that later they realize are stupid if given time to figure it out, and the first thing is to remove them from the thing that's hurting them....Here in Japan, bullying is epidemic and child suicides are perhaps among the highest in the world....kids live in such a small world because we as adults and parents don't do enough to expand it for them....we let them play their games and have their devices without thinking about what they do with them....in some ways the internet is more harmful to kids than drugs