‘The numbers are tragically high: every year, approximately 2 million U.S. adolescents attempt to end their own lives. An estimated 2,000 succeed, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness…Yet suicide experts say it’s not uncommon for parents to be taken completely by surprise by a child’s depression and suicide and learn about the factors that may have led to it only after the fact. “Some parents don’t see the suicide coming because teens are very good at hiding what’s going on in their lives,” Bob Gebbia, CEO of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, tells Yahoo Parenting. “While many parents are aware of the issues their kids are dealing with, sometimes parents are often the last to know.”’
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Source: Yahoo Parenting by Esther Crain
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