During my residency and post-doctoral fellowship, a significant part of my training involved treating suicidal teens and kids. Like many mental illnesses, suicidality does not discriminate -I treated patients from all ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and genders and some who were elementary school-aged. The scariest part for me was that there was nothing consistent across all of those cases that could have predicted who, when, or why, or how. The article below resonated with me and is a thoughtful discussion of what suicidality looks like in youth today:

Article: I treat teens who attempted suicide. Here’s what they told me.