‘I couldn’t get help for my 9 year old who tried to take his life’: mother shares horror story of inadequate services for son
Suicide rates for young Australians double in a decade This report on ABC News yesterday, ‘Suicide rates for young Australians highest in 10 years, researchers call for new prevention strategies’, reveals the distressing situation regarding the numbers of young people wanting to end their lives. In my talks in schools around the country, young people […]
‘I think a bullet might hurt a little bit less than this loneliness’: The Instagram fad normalising suicidal yearnings as fashionable
‘The glamorising and approval of teen girl audiences of the captioned desire to depart from life is surely one of the most dangerous digital conversations unfolding today’ These postings provide a snapshot of the Instagram dialogue trending amongst Australian adolescent girls. It is a virtual battleground of life and death on the popular image-sharing […]