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🛡️ Teen Suicide Series
Course overview
Lesson Overview

1.20 – Feeling Empty vs. Feeling Sad: Feeling empty isn’t the same as feeling sad—it’s like all emotion has drained away, leaving a hollow quiet inside. Sadness still has feeling, but emptiness feels like nothing at all. People describe it as numbness, like watching life from behind glass. It can make even simple things feel pointless or far away. This emptiness often follows trauma, depression, or burnout, when the brain shuts down to protect itself. The danger is that people may start believing they don’t care about living anymore, even though they deeply want meaning. Recognizing this state is the first step toward reconnecting with life. Small actions—like movement, art, or talking—can start to wake emotions again. The emptiness doesn’t mean you’re broken; it means your mind is tired and needs gentle care. Feeling again is possible, one small spark at a time.

About this course

A powerful, compassionate series that helps teens recognize warning signs, speak up, and find hope—even in their darkest moments.

This course includes:
  • A full library of guided lessons on suicide awareness, survival, and prevention
  • Candid conversations about emotional pain, isolation, and mental illness
  • Scripts for how to talk to a trusted adult, counselor, or friend about suicidal thoughts
  • Techniques like grounding, emotional regulation, and crisis de-escalation
  • Case studies of teens who survived suicide attempts and turned their lives around

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