#BreakingSilence: Having the conversation about mental illness and suicide with kids, teens (turnto23.com)

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) 2/13/179:09 AM

We need to help our kids and teens with mental illness and suicide. We need to ask the questions. We need to talk.

“I have found that some parents feel like they’re a failure, if their child says, ‘I’m really depressed.’ ‘Oh, you don’t have anything to be depressed about. I don’t believe that they would say the same thing if a child said, ‘look mom my bone is sticking out.’ They would get them to a hospital, immediately to fix that. And we have to see mental illness the same way,” Ellen Eggert with Kern County Mental Health Crisis said.

To read more of Jackie Ochoa's article and view the newsclip, please click here.

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