Suicide Prevention for Teens
in Crisis - #Trevorlive
Every two hours and eleven
minutes a
person under the age of 25 commits suicide.
person under the age of 25 commits suicide.
Last week on December 8th, many stars got
together to provide a wonderful fundraiser for the nation’s leading crisis
intervention for GLBT teens, the Trevor Project. Dedicated to the prevention of
suicide, the The American Association of Suicidology provides a great deal
of information based on every 100,000 teens in various groups. I was shocked to
discover that out of every 100,000 teens there are 10 suicides. And four times
as many suicide attempts are made.
As a freshman in college, during finals week, a rank smell
filled my dormitory hall. Upon investigation, the 20-year-old computer science
major living across the hall had committed suicide. It was three days before
anyone found him. I had never been around or experienced the impact of such a
cry for help. After his body had been removed, though, things quickly went back
to normal. My college cohorts barely talked about it. Clearly, the young nerd was
troubled, we commented. Carnegie-Mellon University quietly swept the incident
under the rug.
These days with the percentage of suicides so high, we find
suicide impossible to hide. I have had three very close friends commit suicide
since that moment at college. Each time, I think about the impact of one
person’s life and wonder if any of it could have been stopped. But the truth: the
person committed to suicide as an alternative to life will plan the deed and
will surprise everyone around him/her, including even best friends and
partners.
What I have noticed over the years, the people who survive
suicide attempts truly cry out for help when they attempt to kill themselves.
It’s as if, the hope is that someone will save them from their tragic attempt.
I once had a friend call me from New Jersey, while I was living in Nashville.
He imagined, I supposed, that I would be the last person who could help him
from taking his own life. However, I still recognized his cry for help so many
miles away, and found a way to call the police in his town. He was saved before
he died. I’m not sure how happy he was with me, because since then we have only
talked once. Who knows, maybe I did the wrong thing by intervening. Maybe he
tried again later in life and succeeded. I truly have no idea. But what is a
person to do when another person says he or she will commit suicide?
By law, if a practitioner of health hears this message from
a patient or client, we must report it and keep them present until help
arrives. If you can talk the person down from the ledge, the law changes a bit.
You are to get them to sign a release, stating the client will not attempt
suicide after leaving your office. But what if a friend or partner hears the
same message? It would seem that the same intent of the law would need to
follow, even if you have no clinical background.
I once had a client many years ago, who has since passed
away, whose wife asked him what mode of suicide he would use if he were trying
to take his life. My client said to his wife, “Honey, don’t talk like that.” She
kept nagging him until he finally said, “Well, I guess I’d just put a plastic
bag over my head and fall asleep.”
Low and behold, the next day he came home from work and
found her in bed asleep for good. The man never got over the trauma. He felt he
was the one who convinced her subconsciously to do the deed by suggesting the
way and terms. He would spend some of the next few months in therapy, then
ended up having to be hospitalized for his own depression. This was the love of
his life. He spent the rest of his days grieving, until he died of old age.
The loss of a young person’s life seems to be a large issue,
since we recognize as a whole that youth barely understand the meaning of life,
let alone be responsible for taking it, before they have a chance to learn and
educate themselves about the import of growing past their problems. So, I’m
thankful for The Trevor Project and agency like it that counsel young people to
gain strength and fortitude in the face of a harsh world likely not to
understand their particular problem and circumstance.
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