SUICIDAL TEENAGER-ALOK BENJAMIN

I met a 16-year-old teenager in a counseling session. at an obervaiton home (where children are detained for alleged crime). Against his father’s advice, he began narrating his family’s deteriorating financial situation. When I took his rapid depression test I realized that he is suicidal, mainly because he cannot see his bright future. I learned the intensity of his suicidal tendency as he had also planned how he would do it. He told me that he had to leave his school due to a financial crisis. I counseled him to fill out the form for the 12th board exam as a private student and that our foundation would pay for it and for related things like books, coaching, etc. 

I saw a glimmer of hope in his eyes. We now got his form filled and now he is taking tuitions for English and Agriculture. I realised that many students want to appear for the board examinations but cannot do so because of financial issues. Let us help such to make it in life. 

Alok Benjamin 

Psychological Counsellor