interesting facts that i've come up with....with some help
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Teenagers these days love to complain even about the simplest things, even if they do not make any sense to complain about. People in general complain to make themselves feel helpless, which in turn makes them angrier. Albert Ellis called this catastrophic thinking, which involves: attributing failures to personal shortcomings, focusing on negative feedback, and Being overly pessimistic about the future. Optimism is something that is not found that much these days. When something bad happens, people will usually say that the world is unjust. However, it usually depends on the intenseness of the problem.

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Now music today is just a bit awkward like a song that Hawthorne Heights did with the lyrics “Cut my wrists and black my eyes so I might get some sleep tonight, or die.” Songs like this are ridiculous, why would they write a song like that? Why are they promoting suicide?

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People will look for other means to make themselves feel better, like books, video games, art, and idolism. This is done to escape from actual realities, but what are today's realties? For a very specific example, I-pods: It’s a wonder why, teenagers just basically depend on these cold hard things. Emo teenagers will use Music and pound it into their ears instead of facing the actual problems. Losing their precious I-pod will make their life fall apart from its tiny strings.

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People will go onto the internet, to escape from their normal lives. There are forums for where people can talk about their feelings, which is fine. Talking about your emotions is not something done with a person sitting next to you anymore. Though sadly, there is a need for someone to be there giving a physical touch like a pat on the back or a hug.

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On MTV there are reality shows that are generally aggravating, with people yelling at each other. Most of the programs are about, problems that families have or dysfunctional groups that have been put in the same house. Usually this comes with lots and lots of agitating results.

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Now I’m not saying that everyone is like this in this particular group, it’s not good to make snap judgments. It’s completely valid to be saying your life is terrible, if you have gone through a tragedy like hearing of a loved one being abused or someone dying. Also if an unspeakable act has been done upon you, like rape or molestation. Things like this happen to people, it is sad but true. Post traumatic-stress can last forever. Things can remind people of that incident into way later in their life.

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Everyone has problems, there is a process that you go through its called for both of these things, go through a grieving or shock stage. Over time it’s less and less, or it’s time to go to therapy. Absolutely go to therapy if cannot come to terms with what happened, then talk to friends about it. Not saying the F word over and over on the internet saying that you are going to kill yourself, because it’s not worth that. Your life is meaningful! Another thing to do is start writing notes might give to someone about how you feel, or keeping a journal. Writing what there are online quizzes to confirm whether or not. However if you are asking yourself at all that question you should seek help. Just like if people are stressed out at school there is always someone to go to. Websites like [link] have people to talk to about problems and where various people can relate to others problems. Also it’s okay to dress like an emo kid, or a grungy type of person and also okay to be happy. Listening to music is also fun, it’s great to listen to sad songs when you are sad. They make us feel better they connect with how we feel. However, it is not the best to be listening to them all of the time. Being stuck in a pit of constant turmoil is not very pleasant. Listen to some upbeat happy songs, with non depressing lyrics.

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What have we learned today? We need to be more caring and better for ourselves we need to be more optimistic and look for a better future. Not so pessimistic or depending on the cold chains of technology. It’s not so hard to turn off the TV every once in a while, and read a book that will make you smile. So let’s take our thumbs and put them up and shout hip hip hooray!