“A child can’t be depressed.” It’s what we adults told ourselves for years, when mood disorders and thoughts of suicide were shrouded in stigma and shame. Today we know better. We’ve heard about ...
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Early onset
In its National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) released in July 2005, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) revealed the incredible prevalence of mental illnesses, the early age ...
Suicide rate debate
Youth suicide rates have tripled since the 1950s. Why? Why do more of today’s youngsters feel that life is not worth living, that death is the way out of the pain of day-to-day life? David Lester ...
