The number of children and young adults visiting the emergency department for psychiatric concerns rose 28 percent over a four-year period, and visits having to do with suicide more than doubled, according to a study published this week in the journal Pediatrics.

A police officer on the late shift in an Ohio town recently received an unusual call from Facebook. That day, a woman wrote a Facebook post saying she was walking home and intended to kill herself when she got there, according to a police report on the case. Facebook called to warn the Police Department about the suicide threat. The officer quickly located the woman, but she denied having suicidal thoughts, the police report said. Even so, the officer believed she might harm herself and told the woman that she must go to a hospital — either voluntarily or in police custody. He ultimately drove her to a hospital for a mental health checkup, an evaluation prompted by Facebook’s intervention.

by Jay Asher  (2011)

 by Jane Mersky Leder (2018)

This book explores the current cultural and social landscape and how the pressure-filled lives of teens today can lead to anxiety, depression—suicide.

 Life Seen Through Your Teen's Eyes

by Suzanne Wirth  (2017)

From LA Times 10/31/2017

From U.S.News 11/14/2017

This blog posting appeared in The New York Times May 16, 2015.