e the thoughts of suicide come about they have someone that can first notice if they have the symptoms of any disorder and second help them get through it. In my high school I was involved I a group called SMILE it stood for students making it a little easier for underclassman. We were twelve seniors and we held confidential groups in which we talked about problems or situations that this underclassman may be undergoing. This is a great thing to have in High Schools today because it is the students that are facing the same problems or faced the same kinds of problems a short time ago, so it is still fresh in our minds. Something else that may help would be having classes for parents and guardians to talk about the different disorders and how they come about. The warning signs are the most important because it may even help you to notice it in your child’s friend. The loss of a friend for a teen is something so life altering that no good parent would want to put his or her children through such tragedy and heartache.An example of parents needing to care more is the Littleton Massacre. Teenagers that seemed somewhat “normal” (smart and respectable) kids turned into serial killers resulting in their own planned suicide. This should be a cry of help from not just these isolated children but from all adolescents. Parents neglecting their children are only one half the problem the other half is the world surrounding the child. Parents and teachers should not assume that the child is OK and they should ask and know that they are in the best way they can. It is scary to think that parents today can neglect their flesh and blood like that. Youths come across many disorders and if left untreated and uneducated they are powerless to the control it has over their minds. For those two children to do what they did in Littleton had to be that they might have been feeling major depression for some time being that they planned to kill...
