Teens are twice as likely to commit suicide as anyone else is.
Approximately 500,000 young people fifteen to twenty-four years of age attempt to kill themselves each year, nearly 5,000 succeed. Most suicides are committed by people suffering from depression or other related psychiatric disorder. As with depression, most teens who are suicidal can be helped by immediate psychiatric care. Please stress to the students in your group the importance of telling an adult or contacting a crisis center if any of their friends or family members is exhibiting the behaviors listed above or is expressing suicidal ideation. I've been stressed to the limits, I guess you could say, where you just don't know which direction to turn.