In a recent study on the long-term impact of child abuse, adult women who said they were physically or emotionally abused as children were more likely to have mental problems, suffer from depression and to have attempted suicide. It is important to take the subject of suicide seriously. But adolescents who can't get over their depression sometimes do kill themselves.
Boys commit suicide more often than girls, but no one is immune.
About 9 percent said they had tried at least once. Lack of parental interest may be another problem. According to one study 90 percent of suicidal teen-agers believed their families did not understand them. Young people also reported that when they tried to tell their parents about their feelings of unhappiness or failure, their mother and father denied or ignored their point of view. Is she complaining of headaches, stomachaches, etc.