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08-29-2017, 01:07 AM
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Re: Thai Teen Announces Suicide on Facebook Then Hangs
Me, too. A permanent solution to a temporary problem. She was just too young to understand that. |
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08-30-2017, 07:17 AM
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| The Candyman With the Windowless Van Poster Rank:143 Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 11,456 Mentioned: 32 Post(s) Quoted: 6077 Post(s)
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Re: Thai Teen Announces Suicide on Facebook Then Hangs
She may have understood her own life situation much better than someone who speculates about it with no knowledge. A lot of problems for girls and women in that part of the world are anything but temporary.
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04-11-2018, 01:06 AM
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Re: Thai Teen Announces Suicide on Facebook Then Hangs
The brain is not fully developed by age 25, so how can it begin to deteriorate? I've only ever heard of this in the case of genetic disorders. Cultural differences seem obvious, but I would especially fear an adolescent in a culturally underdeveloped environment having to deal with such emotional problems with next to nothing guiding them. It's sink or swim, with little to no access to support systems. Understanding the Teen Brain It doesn’t matter how smart teens are or how well they scored on the SAT or ACT. Good judgment isn’t something they can excel in, at least not yet. The rational part of a teen’s brain isn’t fully developed and won’t be until age 25 or so. In fact, recent research has found that adult and teen brains work differently. Adults think with the prefrontal cortex, the brain’s rational part. This is the part of the brain that responds to situations with good judgment and an awareness of long-term consequences. Teens process information with the amygdala. This is the emotional part. In teen’s brains, the connections between the emotional part of the brain and the decision-making center are still developing—and not necessarily at the same rate. That’s why when teens experience overwhelming emotional input, they can’t explain later what they were thinking. They weren’t thinking as much as they were feeling. https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyc...ContentID=3051 Brain development: teenagers Also, teenagers don’t always have a lot of self-control or good judgment and are more prone to risk-taking behaviour. This is because the self-monitoring, problem-solving and decision-making part of the brain – the prefrontal cortex – develops last. Hormones are also thought to contribute to impulsive and risky behaviour in teenagers. http://m.raisingchildren.net.au/arti...teenagers.html Is 25 the new cut-off point for adulthood? Neuroscience has shown that a young person's cognitive development continues into this later stage and that their emotional maturity, self-image and judgement will be affected until the prefrontal cortex of the brain has fully developed. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24173194 |