My reaction to this piece may differ from my peers. I have been personally affected by suicide, as my best friend at 15 years old took her life. She was my person, my soul mate, my other half. Losing her was and continues to be a pain I don't wish on my worst enemy. This article made what happened to Gabbie feel validated. The article talks about the letdown of the mental health industry, specifically with there being so very few therapeutic interventions for children with depression, as well as very few psychiatrists who treat children and adolescents. Gabbie's death shocked everyone she had talked of suicide a month prior to her death but sought out treatment. Like Trevor in the article Gabbie spent 2 weeks in an inpatient hospitalization program. As the article states, it was traumatic. She came home a different person. The night she took her life she talked to me about a fight with her boyfriend. I told her they would make up the next day and I would be over in the morning with Dunkin Donuts coffee. However, like the article states many suicides completed by adolescents are led by impulse, 1/3 without warning. The article also talks about the vacuum that is left when a loved one dies by suicide. Isn't that the truth. And how parents don't want to admit the possibility this could be their child, so they don't talk about it. The stigma surrounding death by suicide is gut-wrenching. After Gabbie's passing the school was opposed to any sort of memorial for Gabbie. If peers talked about her in class, they were sent directly to the guidance counselors office. There was no room for healthy mourning at school, so students were left to mourn at home, alone. 9 months before Gabbie died a mutual friend of ours also died by suicide, she was 13. Following Gabbie's death were 2 more adolescents' deaths all under the age of 16. Pushing adolescent suicide under the rug doesn't make it go away. This is something that drives me in the social work profession. Children and adolescents should have adequate access to mental health resources used as a pro-active measure for depression and other mental health disorders.