17 YO Playing Blue Whale Asked His Mom For Help And Drew Dark Sketches Before Ending His Life

Adolescence is a phase where everything and everyone seems like they are against you. Handling teenagers, especially in this day and age where the internet is all the rage is a difficult feat. People do not understand limits of using this luxury, hence it has become more difficult to monitor the activities of children and take adequate steps until it is too late.

Taking advantage of this situation are games like Blue Whale which instill curiosity in children, and traumatise them psychologically to the extent that they take the drastic step of suicide. However, sometimes they do cry out for help but are ignored.

Another instance of the game claiming an innocent life has surfaced. This time the victim was a teenager who got addicted to the game and took his life in Panchkula, Haryana.

Karan Thakur, a 17-year-old boy hanged himself and was found by his parents at their residence in sector 4, Panchkula, Haryana. His parents, upon checking his phone after his last rites discovered that he had installed the Blue Whale game and called the police.

As reported by Indian Express, the mother of the boy said that prior to his death, her son had told her that he was addicted to the game and that he required psychiatric treatment.

The boy was apparently, suffering for a long time and it was not until later that he asked for help.

The police found a notebook with a number of pictures drawn by the boy depicting him dying in each of them, by various methods of suicide like jumping off the building, hanging from a fan etc and are quite distressing to see.

The notebook also contains sentences like “No one likes me”, “I should just die” and “I don’t deserve to live among others. Further investigations have been launched by the police into the matter.

The most tragic part about the boy’s death is that despite asking for help clearly, he failed to fight this addiction to the game and succumbed to the trauma. Perhaps, it is time that parents do not trivialise the fears and distress of their children. This needs to stop.