9 Things All Parents Should Know About Teens and Suicide

Before we get into anything else, all three of the experts SELF talked to emphasized the importance of dispelling this harmful myth. “Parents are fearful that if they ask about suicide, they’re going to cause their kid to be suicidal, and that’s simply not the case,” Jill Emanuele, Ph.D., senior director of the Mood Disorders Center at the Child Mind Institute, tells SELF.