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What You Need to Know if Your Child is Depressed. (No. 1: You Are Not a Failure.) [washingtonpost.com]
By Neha Chaudhary, The Washington Post, February 3, 2020 A woman walked into an emergency room with her 13-year-old son, her lips pursed. He was there for a psychiatric evaluation for suicidal thoughts that he had voiced to his school counselor. After my evaluation of her son, I sat down with her to talk. She didn’t look pleased. “I hope you’re here to tell me you’re discharging him,” she said. “We have to get to soccer practice in an hour.” What I was about to tell her was the opposite.