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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I just wish I knew what was going through his head. He was doing all the right things ... reporting it to school, requesting a room change, not engaging in a huge scene with Dharun, and then he goes and grabs a burger and jumps off a bridge. It's just too hard to fathom that someone can come to such a drastic conclusion when acting so seemingly normal. [/quote]

While Dharun's behavior was the direct impetus for the suicide, and what he did was absolutely inexcusable, from the article, it sounds like Tyler was depressed beforehand.   Not that this in any way excuses the abhorrent behavior of Dharun or Molly, but it helps does help to better understand Tyler's mindset in coming to the decision that he did.[/quote]But what's so haunting about this story is that it apparently wasn't all that obvious to a lot of people that he was depressed or suicidal.  I mean, my child was suicidal for awhile and it was [i]obvious[/i] something was wrong.  (We got her help and it passed thank god) But this story makes it sound like Tyler kept his worst feelings completely hidden.  I mean he has people he IMs with and is discussing the situation with.  Did he let on at all that he was considering suicide?

All I can imagine is that he must have felt that his living situation was impossible.  He lived with someone who he barely talked to who was making fun of him to a wide circle of friends and he was worried that contacting the RA made things worse.  Maybe he just couldn't see his life at school getting any better and young people are so impulsive -- but then it's hardly impulsive to take a bus to a bridge in order to jump off, is it?

I was hoping I would understand more after some journalist investigated the story.  I feel now like I understand less!  Poor kid![/quote]

I suspect there may be some answers in Tyler's computer files and the note he left. I'm not totally clear on why they have not been released, at least to Tyler's family. It's not like this is a murder mystery. [/quote]

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