WARNING: This story contains distressing details.
In light of a new Canadian study showing an unprecedented spike in suicide deaths among young girls, women who’ve made it to the other side of their tough teen years are urging struggling adolescents not to give up hope.
The research, published recently in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, shows the rate of suicides among girls ages 10-14 surging for nine straight years, peaking in 2018 at about twice the death rate for boys. Throughout those same years, the male death rate slowly declined.
“It’s highly atypical for females to die by suicide more than males in
