To be unable to stop wondering where this girl is?

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You know how some news stories just 'get to you' more than others? This story about the missing student, Yulia, who disappeared on 7th June in Edinburgh, has really got under my skin.

They've now found footage of her that day in Glasgow, so she's got on a bus to Glasgow without telling anyone and without her phone. She hasn't used her passport, bank accounts or social networking since. Her dad was due over from Russia about two days later.

(www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-23047299 )

I know it sounds insane but I can't stop thinking about this young girl - wondering where she is and why? :(

It's the press....the police can't chase them up to cover all these disappearances. Journos take an interest in the cases which will pique the interest of the public.

So if the missing person is a young, white female she's got more chance of coverage because she's probably going to be more likely to be attractive....that makes a more sensational story....if she's not British she's got less chance of getting any coverage.

Maany years ago a London school boy about 11 yeas old went missing, CCTV footage show him getting off a tube train in london. Lots of publicity at the time.What happened to him? He would be an adult by now.

I think you mean more likely for people to identify with her, rather than saying young white women are more attractive!

Describing a 22 year old as a young woman would be ok, but not a young girl. A young girl is under 5-6yo, a girl is under 16-18...

Stunt yes I didn't word that correctly...I meant more attractive to the press because they seem to be under the impression that young and white means "Garners more interest" I was alluding to Missing White Woman Syndrome

I have been thinking a lot about Yulia as well. I think it's got something to do with living near Edinburgh, and seeing so many posters and facebook posts about her. It can give me a nagging feeling of worry.

I think sometimes with cases involving adults like Yulia the police have heard from them and perhaps know they are safe but for some reason they don't want to be found, perhaps because of family issues or some form of danger from their relatives and they have a right to disappear.
The police then stop making it a priority so as not to draw attention to it.
We never know what issues might have caused her to disappear.

True Zombie, the girl I referred to who went missing the same week as Millie Dowler was of Pakistani origin. Not a peep in the press. Ever.

I know there was a young fella in Dublin who disappeared in 1986.I remember it so well because he was the same age as me but also had only started secondary.

His name is Philip Cairns.I often wonder what happened to him.
His schoolbag was found a week later in the alleyway where Gardai had already searched.Thats the one that has stuck with me all this time

I often wonder about Andrew Gosden who was last seen on cctv in london after buying a one way ticket to get there. He was only fourteen, just a few months older than ds now.

Baby p really really upset me at the time. I think it was because dd2 was exactly the same age as peter when the story broke and they were similar in looks too. It was all I could think about and I used to cry and cry over the story and have nightmares about the whole case. Looking back I don't think I was very well at the time. Id lost my dad to cancer and also had a traumatic birth with dd2 and I had depression. I think that my anxieties and mental health made me vulnerable and ghats why I was so affected.

I absolutely sobbed when reading about Daniel Pelka - just so, so sad, and he looked like such a lovely little boy. Even thinking about it now is making me well up.

I always hope that people, like Yulia, who have gone missing, have done so of their own accord, and don't want to be found.

When all the press surrounding a case suddenly stops, that worries/confuses me - a bit like with April Jones, where for a couple of months there was no news at all.

It's good, in a way, that Yulia was seen on a bus to Glasgow, and then again at Buchanan st. It looks like she's made a conscious decision to "disappear" (although still heartbreaking for her friends and family).

The Baby P thing gutted me; he was exactly the same age to the day as my DS and looked quite like him, too. It still brings tears to my eyes. I think we identify more with some things for various reasons, maybe similarities or deep-rooted fears.

I get more upset when I identify with a victim. I'm another who found baby P particularly upsetting as ds was about the same age.
Growing up, I can remember being really upset of a girl who disappeared, can't even remember her name, but she was the same age as me.

But the news story that still effects me, I have no connection to at all. I read the story on the newspaper covering the desk at primary school during painting, probably about 1986/7. She was a little girl called Kimberley, I thought of her as little, so probably about 4 or 5, and she'd been abused by her family. Police were called in and rescued her, but she died in the police woman's arms. . I think about her whenever I see the name Kimberley even now. Don't know why it effected my so much, I can remember close detail that was reported.

dubstarr73 that's weird, I have no idea why but I was thinking of Philip Cairns this morning when I was putting my makeup on.

I was also the same age as him, that must be why it's stuck in our minds.

It can make you identify with their plight more if they are similar to you.

If I'm down/anxious/stressed I'm more likely to get over-obsessed about cases in the news.

April Jones was one of those that I followed closely, I really felt for her because I also have a young child & all the worries about playing outside etc. Also that she had learning difficulties made her more vulnerable.

Hopefully this young woman has 'run away' of her own volition and will be found safe.

Someone who was very close to me as a teenager has gone missing.

I think of him everyday. It will always be a mystery to me, I can't believe he would deliberately vanish.

Yes Philip Cairns 27 years missing this year.Cant believe its so long ago.

mirry did you mean Andrew Gosden, dark haired boy with glasses? I often wonder how he vanished considering London is full of CCTV.

Madeleine McCann disappeared on my dd birthday. Every year I always send up a silent prayer for her.

I too have been thinking about Yulia for several reasons.
For one I live in Edinburgh, secondly she is ages with my daughter, thirdly I know someone was was at uni with her.

I vividly remember driving home one hot sunny afternoon with my 3DDs in the car and the radio playing. The music was interupted for the announcement that the burned remains of 2 children (Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman) had been found by a dog walker, in some remote area.

I was so choked up by it. The world had been waiting and waiting for news about their whereabouts. I remember my older 2DDs, then about 7 and 9 asking what it was all about. I couldn't have explained to them at that moment without sobbing out-loud :( I always remember that.

No meglet, it was a 15year old schoolboy who disapeared in 1979. I've just googled and see he's still mssing but now believed to have been abducted and killed by a paedophile from a nearby paedophile ring. Very sad. However if you look at missing people in wikapedia you'll see loads of missing people all over the word. btw I don't make a habit of looking for these things - it was reading this thread that made me do it.

Holly and jessica were murdered the day my dd1 was born. I think about them on her birthday every year.

That wikipedia page is so sad.The amount of missing people on there is amazing.