Do all you can to connect to this child and identify clinical services immediately available. The more people understand mental health issues and treatments, the more able they will be to identify potential problem spots and react appropriately. Children who are taking medication will feel less isolated if they understand medications as another tool in their lives like a computer or a pencil sharpener a tool designed to improve their lives vs. making them a target of ridicule. It takes a society to create Violent children. It will take a society to heal the children who have violent thoughts and behaviors while at the same time working very hard to teach children and each other that violence is neither funny or powerful or useful.
Death is permanent.
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