QuietGuy
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This is the most tragic story I've read in a long time. This poor girl could have been brought back from the brink of suicide and helped along the road to recovery, if only she'd sought help.
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Please don't do it.
A bullied schoolgirl stepped off the top of a 60ft car park and died in front of her ex-boyfriend after she spotted him with another girl, an inquest heard yesterday.
Robyn Nixon, 15, had suffered "psychological bullying" and jumped from the top floor of the car park in Weymouth, Dorset, on April 11 this year. She had been excluded from a group of friends and had also broken up from her boyfriend of seven months in the days before her death, an inquest heard.
The hearing was told how Robyn had been speaking to her ex-boyfriend, now 17, in the minutes before she jumped to her death. He had been in the town with his new girlfriend and they walked to the car park after Robyn telephoned him, concerned for her safety. Just moments after the pair arrived, Robyn ended the telephone call and stepped from the edge of the building. Her ex-boyfriend rushed to her side but she suffered massive head injuries and was declared dead in hospital shortly afterwards.
The coroner said no one could know what was going through Robyn's mind in the moments before she jumped, but concluded she took her own life. He said at the inquest at Dorset County Hall in Dorchester: "She had two areas of problems. One was being excluded, if that's the right word, from a group of friends at school, and the other was that she had only recently broken up with a boyfriend." He said Robyn may not have expected to see her ex-boyfriend with another girl and "that was what made up her mind", he added.
Notes were later discovered in her bag, one reading that "there is nothing for anybody else to hear", Mr Johnston said.
Mrs Nixon, of Dawlish Crescent, Weymouth, told the inquest: "She wasn't going to school as she felt so isolated, because she'd had a fall-out with friends and she just felt that everybody hated her." She said her daughter was subject to "psychological bullying" rather than physical bullying. She had even been taunted on a social networking site while on a family holiday to India in March.
One of Robyn's friends said she had confided in him two days before her death that she intended to either "cut herself" or jump from the multi-storey car park. Asked by the coroner if Robyn gave a reason, the 16-year-old boy said: "She just said she wasn't happy with her life at the moment. I asked her why. I told her she could get through it, and that it was a certain stage of her life. She said: 'Yes, but I've got to live through this stage'." Robyn later promised to him that she would not go through with her threats, sending him a text message to say: "I'm not going to top myself."
A 15-year-old witness told the inquest of Robyn's final moments. "She got up and started walking to the edge. She just continued walking. She stepped off and I froze to the spot because I didn't want to get any closer."
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If you've found this post through Google, and are feeling suicidal, please visit Befrienders Worldwide and call your local suicide helpline NOW. Suicide is NOT the solution to your pain.
Befrienders Worldwide said:When we are depressed, we tend to see things through the very narrow perspective of the present moment. A week or a month later, things may look completely different.
Most people who once thought about killing themselves are now glad to be alive. They say they didn't want to end their lives - they just wanted to stop the pain.
The most important step is to talk to someone. People who feel suicidal should not try to cope alone. They should seek help NOW.
Please don't do it.