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Before My 15-Year-Old Died, I Never Said The S-Word. What A Grave Mistake That Was
(www.huffingtonpost.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2026
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Shipping your 15 year old who has significant mental health struggles off to a boarding school is definitely a choice. They claim it was a school that specialized in mental health, but then how would a place that specialized in mental health also not prevent a kid from killing herself?
Being shipped off and treated like a problem child surely did not help her at all. The lesson of this expose isnt “we should have talked about suicide more directly”. Its the unwritten subtext that elides how they should have done a shitload of things differently, and they dont even want to let themselves come to that realization. “I must have just not talked directly enough about suicide”. How about: maybe you should have kept your daughter close to her family instead of shipping her away just because she was hard to deal with sometimes…