NPR – Elissa Nadworny
“For Whitney Bischoff, high school was tough. On the first day of her freshman year, a childhood friend committed suicide. Things weren’t any better at home — her father died when she was 7 and her mom was an alcoholic with an abusive boyfriend. She had a hard time making friends. And when all the stress threatened to overwhelm her, she, too, considered suicide. “I thought family was everything,” Bischoff says. “I thought, if I didn’t have family support – what am I going to do? Suicide seemed like the only way out.” As the thoughts persisted, Bischoff started going to group counseling sessions organized by her school in Rapid City, S.D.”(more)