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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what are parents supposed to do if there are literally no signs? The kids aren’t even a little depressed first?[/quote]

First PP here. It’s not that there are no signs. There are and we are so much better at recognizing them and having support available. The big issue that I saw both professionally and personally was that when it came time for the actual attempt, everyone thought things were not good but not Crisis. In fact most saw an upswing. Like rock bottom had happened and things were looking up. There was hope - for us family members. That’s a very dangerous time period. It’s the point where you have the energy to act and you know you might decompensate again and can’t survive another rock bottom.

Even knowing this, I did not see it in my own child. Call it hope. Call it that it’s something you absolutely cannot fathom (your child killing themselves). Whatever. I worked with so many families and every single one was shocked. Every single one thought it was ok to leave to go to the grocery store. Or family dinner. Or whatever. These (me included) were people who were on top of their kids’ mental health issues. I am lucky that mine wasn’t successful but the people I worked with were not.

Anyway, yes there are signs. But this is really complicated. [/quote]

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