<p>This is a sad story. </p>
<p>As an aside, I think it confusing things to equate suicidality with “depression”, or even Major Depressive Disorder.</p>
<p>This is intersting</p>
<p>“New Evidence On The Antidepressant-Suicide Connection In Kids”</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2012/02/10/antidepressants-the-black-box-and-a-paradox/[/url]”>http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2012/02/10/antidepressants-the-black-box-and-a-paradox/</a></p>
<p>"Why the relationship between depression and suicide is not as clear-cut in kids and teens as it is in adults is unclear. Lead author Robert Gibbons says that in young people, “antidepressants decrease the severity of depression – but they do nothing for suicidal thoughts. For kids, the paradox is that there’s a disassociation in suicide and depression. That, I think, is the most interesting thing about our paper – it helps explain why some studies have found one thing, and others another.”</p>
<p>"Explaining why this dissociation exists will be the next step. It may be that for kids, a wider range of events and influences beyond depression prompts suicidal thoughts than for grownups. Indeed Gibbons suggests that it’s “probably because there are a lot of things that affect kids – bullying, social issues, groups, and so on – that may not produce clinical depression, but certainly can influence thoughts and behavior.” In other words, there could be other states or mental health issues that predict suicidal thoughts better than depression, like anxiety, alienation, and others, though at this point it’s anybody’s guess exactly what they are. Coauthor J. John Mann suggests that “kids are more aggressive than adults and, in general, more impulsive and likely to act on powerful feelings like suicidal thoughts.”</p>
<p>On self-injury; also not the same as Major Depression</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2012/01/31/if-self-injury-is-so-prevalent-why-do-we-know-so-little-about-it/[/url]”>http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2012/01/31/if-self-injury-is-so-prevalent-why-do-we-know-so-little-about-it/</a></p>