Campus Suicides

Here is an article about another suicide of a university student, Ian Smith-Christmas/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...ybrid_linearcol_3_na

When he told the staff he was feeling suicidal, they immediately banned him from campus.

He ended up killing himself.

I believe they handled it very badly.

I have left several comments on the Washington Post site.

Here is my most recent one

Based on my experience in listening to many suicidal young people I have come up with a possible scenario to consider.   What if, when Ian sought help from the university, they had suggested that a) he call his parents and b) he take a leave from school so he could get treatment? 
 
Then what if he felt strongly opposed to both of these for the following possible reasons. 
 
He did not want to his parents to know - perhaps because he did not want them to worry and he felt sure he could get through things without being a burden to them (something I have heard many times ). And what if he did not want to leave school because his friends there were his best source of emotional support?  
 
And what if the university did not respect his feelings and they decided he was being difficult and not cooperating, and so they called his parents against his will?  
 
And what if he did not want the entire university to know why he had not been in classes? And what if, as a result of the university's decision, when he returned he felt very self-conscious and exposed, knowing that word was getting around that he had been banned from campus because he was feeling suicidal? And what if some people said hurtful things to him, even unintentionally? Or they started feeling afraid of him and were avoiding him? Or they just didn't know what to say and it was very awkward and uncomfortable? Or what if they tried to help but unintentionally made him feel worse, since they had never received any training in how to help a depressed friend? 
 
And what if, as has been suggested here, he had become understandably afraid of returning to the school counselors? 
 
So my basic question is, what if the university actually made things *worse* for Ian, and therefore broke one of the first principles of the medical profession: First, do no harm?
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I would appreciate feeback....

Steve