On October 27th the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Garden City hosted an evening with Dr. Greg Hudnall, an expert in depression and suicide prevention. He shared insights on how parents can recognize symptoms in teens who might be contemplating suicide. Teens may be troubled by a loss of friends, being different, being bullied, feeling lonely, or family troubles. One of the studies found that children will often tell another child about their feelings and not the parents. Parents were encouraged to talk to their children about why people think suicide is the only way out of their pain.
Dr. Hudnall has
created a foundation called Hope4Utah. His group has gone to over 500 schools
to teach teens to be ambassadors in a peer to peer suicide prevention program
which has helped decrease the rate of suicide.
Some of the resources mentioned were: The National Suicide
Prevention Lifeline 800-273-talk available 7 days a week; befrienders.org;
lasp.info; preventingsuicide.lds.org; and parentguidance.org; another is Safe
UT 800-273-8200.
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