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Many people desperately want to know what to say – and what not to say – to someone who is thinking of suicide. The article 10 Things Not to Say to a Suicidal Person is SpeakingOfSuicide.com’s most popular post. Almost a half-million people have viewed it in the last...

Published in the New York Times, June 28. 2021 When Marie, 11, called a suicide prevention hotline in October, nobody saw it coming. Not even Marie herself, who had been bottling up feelings of loneliness and sadness for months without telling anyone. Her...

Published originally by Johns Hopkins University, Lifelines: Stories from the Human Safety Net, 2014 A team of bilingual, bicultural social workers try to help at-risk girls Five years ago, a 12-year-old Latina girl committed suicide in her family’s garage in the town...

COVID fears and restrictions may be affecting teen mental health. Click here to visit Scripps.org to learn more. Teens face untold pressures even during the most ordinary times. COVID-19 has added new pressures and they have taken an emotional toll. Studies show COVID...

The pandemic has been the psychological workout of their lives. The next few months can be a time of recovery. In the more than two decades I’ve spent as a psychologist working with adolescents, I have never seen teenagers so worn down at the end of an academic year...