Health: Recent Tragic Suicides Connected with School Shooting Trauma Highlight Need to Take Depression and Grief More Seriously

Tré Goins-Phillips : Mar 26, 2019
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"We have to recognize after an event like this, there is trauma, anxiety and depression. We have to educate parents and teachers to recognize the signs and ask the right questions." -Ryan Petty, father of Alaina Petty

[Faithwire.com] The horrors of school shootings produce damaging effects that far outlast the attacks themselves. For two students who survived the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in Parkland, Florida, those horrors proved to be too much. (Image: via Miami Herald)

Over the weekend, a second student who survived the February 2018 attack took his life, less than one week after a 19-year-old woman who survived the shooting also committed suicide, according to the Miami Herald...

...Broward County teacher Lisa Olson, whose son survived the deadly Parkland shooting, took the school district and city council to task for failing to provide more services to survivors of the attack.

"Students and staff are struggling and MSD staff and administration is completely disconnected from these struggles," she said recently. "No one from the school ever checked up on the students who witnessed this tragedy. The district could be doing so much better at serving the students at MSD"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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Important: If you or anyone you know is struggling with depression, suicidal thoughts, or you just need someone to talk to, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.