My next struggle was to keep Victoria alive. She would lock herself in her room and wanted no one around her. She started drinking a lot and just was not herself. She refused to go to counseling. This continued for several months. I finally had to come to the point where I said to her, "If you really want to kill yourself, go ahead. But just know that you are doing the same thing Brad did to you to us." I could not believe I actually spoke those words, but that kind of snapped her out of it. She has since then gone to counseling. Suicide rates fluctuate between boys and girls. Girls think more about and attempt suicide about twice as often as boys, and tend to attempt suicide by overdosing on drugs or cutting themselves.