Preventing adolescent suicide
Monday, June 21st, 2010
By: Maiken Scott
mscott@whyy.org
Several adolescent suicides in our region have brought much attention on this difficult topic recently.
WHYY's Behavioral Health reporter Maiken Scott spoke with psychologist Dan Gottlieb about warning signs and preventive measures:
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If you need help or advice, please call the hotline of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (www.afsp.org) at 1-800-273 TALK.
Until we address the toxification of family life due to infiltration of corporate "values", our children will continue to grow up isolated and adrift. We must again identify ourselves as citizens and resist brainwashing by the corporate elite to see ourselves as consumers. How apt that those who struggle with "mental illness" are now called consumers, a made-to-order market niche.
One is left wondering what has been done nationally (systemically) to prevent youth suicide in light of the recommendations and the expressed goals put forth in the following: HHS Secretary's Task Force on Youth Suicide (report published 1989), "Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General" (1999), "Healthy People 2010" (2000), Surgeon General's "Call to Action to Prevent Suicide" (2001).