Factory worker Tyler Smith, 19, posted a message on Facebook saying: "I feel death calling me"- and even started taking Valium in an attempt to suppress what was going through his mind.
Eventually after confessing to his parents and girlfriend, Tyler walked onto Stockport Viaduct in Greater Manchester and fell over the edge as a policeman tried to talk him to safety.
He suffered multiple injuries and died a week later in hospital.
The hearing was told the teenager, a keen swimmer and skateboarder, from Stockport, had begun smoking cannabis when he was just 15 and it increased when he started to going raves.
His mother Deborah Cooper said: "When he was OK, his behaviour was very loving. There were no problems or concerns when he wasn't taking drugs or drinking.
"But when he was down and depressed his behaviour changed. I noticed a few Facebook status' that he put up and would ask him what was wrong.
"He would write things like 'I feel death calling me' and he would just tell me that I wouldn't understand.
"I carried on asking him what was wrong and he said 'if I told you I would have to kill myself.' Eventually he told me about the inappropriate sexual thoughts.
"I tried to talk to him about the thoughts but he didn't think there was any help for him.
"Because of those thoughts he would say he didn't want to get old. He told me "valium was the only thing that got rid of the thoughts he was having.
"He just wanted to stop having those thoughts. That's why he was always trying to get it.''
Tyler was later admitted to Stepping Hill Hospital with a drug overdose but despite talking about his thoughts and cannabis and Valium use to doctors he was discharged.
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