by ekallen | May 11, 2022 | Blog, Letter From Elliot
According to US News and World Report, teen suicide is up 4.5-fold (450%) in the last decade, with the bulk of the increase in the last three years. Covid lockdowns and social malfunction have been the new fuel on the depression fire. National data has given us...
by ekallen | Feb 24, 2022 | Letter From Elliot
How can an invasion by Russia into Ukraine possibly influence the level of anxiety and depression in your teen? The answer is that we have been bombarded with stress due to Covid, a closed economy, closed schools, masks everywhere, and now a potential war in Europe....
by lahsan | Aug 11, 2021 | Preventing Suicide, Stress & Anxiety
Many teens struggle with anxiety and depression. Some turn to self-harm to deal with their intense feelings. Self-harm and self-injury describe a group of behaviors in which you deliberately hurt yourself — not as a suicide attempt, but as a way to release...
by lahsan | Apr 3, 2021 | Letter From Elliot
I received three phone calls in the last two weeks from parents whose teen recently took their own life… suicide. As you can imagine, the parents are messes with thousands of unanswered questions and a lifetime of second-guessing. The most recent suicide...
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