Hundreds of suicidal teens sleep in emergency rooms
&gt; But I need to be honest with you about what’s likely to unfold,” the doctor added. The best place for adolescents in distress was not a hospital but an inpatient treatment center, where individual and group therapy would be provided in a calmer, communal setting, to stabilize the teens and ease them back to real life. But there were no openings in any of the treatment centers in the region, the doctor said.<p>This is never really questioned. I have some doubts. Seems to me you’re more likely to see success with a radical life change. Moving far away to a different lifestyle.<p>Managing to prevent a suicidal person from committing suicide is a pretty weak target metric imo.<p>How many suicidal people are suicidal simply because the specific lifestyle before them is the only norm they know of and they just don’t want it?<p>Many people cite stats about how previously suicidal people are glad they didn’t commit suicide successfully but it’s got obvious survivor bias from those that did and don’t get a say.