Why is suicidal behaviour increasing among elementary school children"
Eight-year-old Brian was raging. Something small had set him off, and he was trashing his room, breaking toys, ripping pictures off walls, turning over furniture and throwing the wreckage at his parents, Jeff Warner and Holly Sabara. Warner put their other sons, ages two and five, in the couple?s bedroom and told them not to come out.
?I don?t want to be here,? Brian wailed. ?I want to die.?
Sabara left the room and called her local mental health crisis line in Guelph, Ont., to get advice on how to handle the situation with Brian, who had been diagnosed with ADHD and depression. The woman on the other line could hear the chaos in the background; she said they needed to get to the ER right away and called them an ambulance.
Meanwhile, Brian tried to kill himself. (Because reporting on suicide methods can lead to contagion, we are choosing not to share how.) Fortunately, Warner was able to stop him and keep him safe until the police and paramedics arrived. ?I felt like I was in a movie, thinking this can?t be happening to my family,? says Sabara. ?We can?t be going to the hospital for a suicide attempt?he?s only eight. It was absolutely overwhelming.?
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