February 2, 2015
Blurb
On Oct. 24, a freshman shot five classmates before taking his own life in a cafeteria at Marysville Pilchuck High School. Only one of the teens survived.
There's now worry about wounds of another nature.
Research shows that school shootings often are associated with increases in risky behaviors among young people in the communities where they occurred, including thoughts of suicide....
“There is so much stigma surrounding depression and suicide,” Adam Lesser, deputy director for the Center for Suicide Risk Assessment New York State Psychiatric Institute, told the Totem Middle School students. “It's OK to talk about this kind of really scary stuff.”
Read more: http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20150203/NEWS01/150209758/
There's now worry about wounds of another nature.
Research shows that school shootings often are associated with increases in risky behaviors among young people in the communities where they occurred, including thoughts of suicide....
“There is so much stigma surrounding depression and suicide,” Adam Lesser, deputy director for the Center for Suicide Risk Assessment New York State Psychiatric Institute, told the Totem Middle School students. “It's OK to talk about this kind of really scary stuff.”
Read more: http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20150203/NEWS01/150209758/