Sadly, you have known someone, or of someone, who has taken his/her own life; and when suicide involves a young person, a whole population of youth are trying to function in a daze of questions and feelings. Coping puts harsh demands on their emotional maturity, and today’s media offers the kinds of condolences that often…

Cutting is an attempt to respond to serious problems and negative emotions, but is actually an irrational solution and addictive form of self-injury. Even though the act of cutting oneself is physically dangerous, someone who cuts is not necessarily suicidal. Rather, someone who cuts is inadequately dealing with emotional hardship either from pain or numbness…