Positive thing to us like this is going to help us and it really didn t. leah and morgan went online looking for help rather than reaching out in real life. leaving their parents in the dark. there were times that i would wake up and i could see the light on under her door and knock and tell her please turn it off. you have school in the morning. morgan was insistent that she was fine. she said, i m fine. morgan began spending more time isolated in her room. she would spend hours posting and re-posting content from the dark recesses of the internet. images of anguish, pain and even suicide.
self-harm seems like such a positive thing to us like this is going to help us, and it really didn t. leah and morgan went online looking for help rather than reaching out in real life. leaving their parents in the dark. there were times that i would wake up and i could see the light on under her door and i d go knock and tell her please turn that off. you have school in the morning. morgan was insistent that she was fine. she said, i m fine. morgan began spending more time isolated in her room. she would spend hours posting and re-posting content from the dark recesses of the internet. images of anguish, pain and even suicide.
Been a registered nurse for 24 years and i ve worked in the psychiatric field for 4 years. had you ever suspected that morgan might have suicidal tendencies? never. not one single time. she got straight as. she excelled. she had a lot of friends and i used to pick her up from school. i would have to wait like an extra ten minutes in carpool line because she had 30 kids she had to hug good-bye. but what chris didn t realize is that the daughter she thought she knew was only half the picture. what is this? this is her computer. and her phone. the police took this from us immediately. because they wanted to see if there was any indication of what she was thinking in those last days. what did they reveal? what did they find? sites that she had been on. that i was not aware of.
what do you miss most about morgan? everything. it s actually really hard because i sorry. it s okay, honey. i imagine when we were younger i imagined going through life but my entire life was her i imagined graduating high school together. everything. like it might sound silly but i imagined her being my braid of honor and everything, like all this we had planned out. like we thought about everything and it s just weird not having her there. leah and morgan were as close as could be. so in middle school morgan revealed she was struggling, leah was there for her.
we were sitting in a room and we were just talking about, like, our feelings and everything and we were both kind of upset and she rolled up her sleeves and she said this is how i m trying to deal with it. morgan, it turns out, was cutting, channelling her emotions into self harm. i was like, i feel the same way. like, i ve been doing through the same thing. i did it, too. a lot of kids had been doing it at that time? i think it was instagram at the time where like you can find people online and they re doing the same thing. that kind of struggle among teens is nothing new. but what s different is the ability to go online. in just a few clicks, you can find the darkest of places. entire communities where images of self harm are widely shared. self harm seems like such a