Student with Mental Illness

mompop
Sat, 08 Sep 2012 01:05:38 +0000

Please try to contact the parents if at all possible. The school will not contact the parents if he expresses suicidal thoughts- he has to share a plan or make an attempt, (unless he signed a release). Trust me, the parents don’t want to find out he was acting this way after it is too late to help him. I know of more than one case in which a student sought help at the health care center but parents did not know about it until after a successful suicide. There is a poster on CC who found out too late that his son attempted suicide (the school was aware) at least once before he was successful and he was not contacted. Tragic.