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Wrote In About Apologizing To Girl I Teased

Published: May 14, 2012

Dear TeenHealthFX,

I'm the guy who wrote in about apologizing to the girl i teased in middle school. I used your advice and apologized to her after school and she accepted it very graciously. I hope I can be a better person in the future. Thank you.

Signed: Wrote In About Apologizing To Girl I Teased

Dear Wrote In About Apologizing To Girl I Teased,

TeenHealthFX is glad that we could be helpful to you. We have a tremendous amount of respect for you that you apologized to this girl, and are very happy to hear that your apology was received well and that it sounds like it was meaningful to her.

We can’t change the past, but we think your story is a great example that we can do what we can to make up for things we’ve done in the past, as well as to use our past experiences (both positive and negative) to influence our future decisions.

Signed: TeenHealthFX

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33% of adolescents in America are victim to sexual, physical, verbal, or emotional dating abuse. ¹⁸

Nearly two in five 12th graders report using some kind of vaping device in the past year. ⁷

1 in 4 teens contract a sexually transmitted disease every year. ¹¹

In 2017, persons aged 15–24 years represented 62.6% of all chlamydia cases. ¹⁰

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In the next 24 hours, 1,439 teens will attempt suicide. ¹⁴

In the next 24 hours, 2,795 teenage girls will become pregnant ¹²

Only 50.6% of U.S. youth aged 6-17 with a mental health disorder received treatment in the last year. ⁸

90% of daily tobacco users begin by age 18 ¹³

Many teens reported feeling overwhelmed (31%) and depressed or sad (30%) as a result of stress. ¹⁶

37.3 percent of 12th graders reported vaping in the past 12 months ¹⁵

Two-thirds of those who developed alcohol or substance use disorders have had a mental health disorder. ¹⁷

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21% of all new HIV diagnoses in the U.S. are among people aged 13-24 years old, most of those being 20-24. ¹⁹

59% of all students in grades 9 to 12 indicated that they had not yet had sex. ²¹

1 in 3 young people will be in an abusive or unhealthy relationship ²³

50% of young people who experience rape or physical or sexual abuse will attempt to commit suicide ²⁴

There was a 78% increase in e-cigarette use between 2017 and 2018. ²

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Young people aged 15–24 years acquire half of all new STDs ⁴

In 2017, 5455 teenagers died from an overdose ⁵

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59% of U.S. teens have personally experienced at least one type of abusive online behaviors. ²⁶

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