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Understanding and Preventing Teen Suicide -- When a teen commits suicide, everyone is affected. Family members, friends, teammates, neighbors, and sometimes even those who didn't know the person well are united by feelings of grief, confusion, guilt - and the sense that if only they had done something differently, the suicide could have been prevented.
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Understanding Depression -- Your daughter spends more time in her room than usual, with the door closed and the shades drawn. She sleeps a lot, and even the family dog can't make her smile anymore. She has stopped hanging out with her friends, and when you ask what's going on, she just mumbles.
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You are NOT Alone! -- Do you ever feel like nobody understands you? Does it seem that everyone around you is clueless? Do you sometimes feel like you are the only one who is experiencing certain thoughts, moods, and feelings?
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Prozac Plus Counseling Best for Depressed Teens -- NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For depressed adolescents, Prozac plus cognitive-behavioral counseling is more effective than either treatment alone for relieving symptoms and reducing suicidal thinking, new research shows.
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Locking Up Guns Lowers Teen Suicide Rates -- NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Requiring people to store guns where they are not easily accessed by children and teenagers appears to reduce the rate of suicide among 14- to 17-year olds, according to new study findings released Tuesday.
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Depressed Adolescents Have Altered Brain Structures -- (HealthDayNews) -- The area of the brain called the hippocampus is smaller in adolescents with major depression compared to their healthy peers, researchers report.
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Don't Let Depression Win -- Depression is an excruciating condition that attempts to tear at your soul and any semblance of self-esteem you may have. It persistently ravages your positive attributes and emphasizes all that is negative.
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Climbing Out of Depression -- What do you do when you feel so sad, you don't even know what to do anymore? When the pain rushes through your brain and it is hard to smile, talk, be a normal person? How can it be that life is continuing right around you while you feel like an outsider?
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Depression or Just the Blues -- Many people have had or will experience some kind of depression in their life. It can result from a death in the family or any kind of change that causes stress. Stress can sometimes trigger an inbalance of the chemical Serotonin in your brain. Medication can help balance this chemical and help keep in check.
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More Than I Can Bear -- One of my long time best friends called me the other night with a horrible pain in her heart.  She needed someone to talk to.  Rumor had it her daughter might be suicidal and she was trapped on a business trip until the next evening.  Her husband was home handling the situation, but she wasn't going to be okay until she could hold her daughter close.  She needed to look deep into her daughter's eyes to get a 'read' on what was really going on inside her mind.  Until she could really sit down and talk to her daughter, she could at least pick my brain as to what to do.  We talked a bit about when we were seventeen, and I tried to commit suicide.  Now, all these years later, what could I say to my friend or to her daughter to make it all better?
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