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No One Saw My Pain: Why Teens Kill Themselves
by Andrew Slaby & Lili Frank Garfinkel Slaby is a psychiatrist who works with survivors of suicides; he works with the families of people who kill themselves. Of the case studies shown here, not all of the suicides were teen suicides. Some were older and one was younger. Slaby speculates on what places certain people at risk, why they kill themselves, and whether anything can be done about it. One of the most unusual opinions Slaby holds is that anorexia is an expression of depression. He makes a very good case for this, using as support a case of an anorexic woman who commits suicide.
Serious reading.