Suicide is a permanent solution to your temporary problems.

Today I found out that a student at the high school I teach at committed suicide. She was a senior, a good student, and a very intelligent young lady.
It saddens me that many young people should feel that ending their life is the best way to solve any problem.
PLEASE, IF YOU KNOW OF ANYONE WHO IS DEPRESSED OR FEELS OVERWHELMED WITH LIFE, TELL SOMEONE. GET THEM HELP.

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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

We're failing youngsters shockingly in terms of mental health care.
I see it everyday.

Practitioners have ever lengthening waiting lists and ever diminishing budgetary restraints.

Some Therapists i know constantly cite 14 hour workdays; delays in funding for the work they're already doing; shortages in 'safe spaces' to send those deemed most at risk; and because of an unwillingness to even acknowledge a problem, unsupportive family.

The marginization of family life over the last thirty years or so (it's now an imperative that both parents work. Some away from home for lengthy periods) means that youngsters feel ever more isolated from all the stuff they should be doing in developing into 'reasonable thinking adults'.

Personally I find it disgraceful that we're enabling this to happen.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@Picklebobble2 The solution has to be found at home. Parents may be working, but grandparents have unprecedented leisure time and resources. We cannot afford to medicalise every modern ill.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@SunshineGirl better make house buying and renting cheaper then.
Why do you think people move away from home in the first place ?

Annoys me when people think there are no answers. Just people's faults.

None of which is relevant to this post and the possibly preventable loss of a young life.