"The Teen Suicide Epidemic"

[Shell B]

Thanks, hon.

I think that here:

As adults, we can choose where we live, who we live with, who we associate with and where we work, to an extent.

you are ahead of the good doctors. A lack of control over significant living factors is coupled with the fact that teenagers are biologically adults who are forced into a netherworld of enforced dependency by society. It wasn't all that long ago in historical terms that kids were married off at age 12-14.

No problem, Min.

I left my home at 16 and it was a pain in the ass to get that far that fast, so I agree that it is forced upon them. I do think that the newfound longevity of humans means that marrying young is unnecessary, but I don't see anything wrong with self sufficiency if a teen can handle it. At the very least, allow them to be themselves once they hit a certain age. Forcing compliance in regard to sexual orientation, activities, work, etc., is overparenting, in my opinion and it breeds unhappy children. Now, with all of that being said, depression is about chemicals in the brain, so I don't think all of this is the source of teen suicide, but merely one of the reasons that despair reaches the point of suicide in teenagers.