Suicide Prevention Month - Young Adults

Created on August 17, 2022, 3:51 pm

Last Updated September 24, 2023, 4:59 pm

September is Suicide Prevention Month — a time to raise awareness and discuss this highly stigmatized topic. In addition to shifting public perception, we use this month to spread hope and vital information to people affected by suicide. Suicidal thoughts, much like mental health condition s, can affect anyone regardless of age, gender or background. In fact, suicide is often the result of an untreated mental health condition. Suicidal thoughts, although common, should not be considered normal and often indicate more serious issues. If you or someone you know needs support now, call or text the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988.

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A teenager trying to recover from the tragic death of his father and stepmother believes himself to be responsible for the rash of teen suicides occurring in his town.

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Miller, Mary Beth

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Everyone believes that Zoe helped her friend Aimee commit suicide. Through writing in her journal, Zoe comes to realize no one could have helped Aimee, but Zoe can help herself.

3) Out Of The Darkness: Teens Talk About Suicide

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Teen suicide has long been considered one of society's darkest secrets; the idea of troubled young people driven to take their own lives was a tragedy too horrible to contemplate, let alone talk about openly. But the fact remains that teen suicide is an issue that refuses to go away so long as young people in crisis have nowhere to turn. But now, in this age of frank discussions about bullying, peer pressure, and issues of "difference," there is a...

4) Stay with me

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Freymann-Weyr, Garret

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When her sister kills herself, sixteen-year-old Leila goes looking for a reason and, instead, discovers great love, her family's true history, and what her own place in it is.

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Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.

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Pretty little liars volume 3

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After their missing friend's body is found and another of their friends commits suicide, four former best friends live in fear of their secrets being exposed by someone who is stalking them via their cell phones.

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Schumacher, Julie

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When her sixteen-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders.

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Tsubasa thinks that her pretty and popular sister, Arisa, has the perfect life. Everyone at school loves Arisa, unlike the hot-tempered Tsubasa, whose nick-name is "the Demon Princess." But when Arisa attempts suicide, Tsubasa learns that her seemingly perfect sister has been keeping some dark secrets. Now Tsubasa is going undercover at school--disguised as Arisa--in search of the truth. Rated T ages 13+.

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Beautiful Dead volume 2

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Not alive. Not dead. Somewhere in between lie the Beautiful Dead. There's been no sign of the Beautiful Dead for weeks. Darina achingly misses Phoenix all over again. Surely he will return to help solve the remaining mysteries. It's been almost a year since Arizona drowned in Hartman Lake. Suicide, it would seem. But something doesn't add up...Drowning herself in the lake does not sound like strong, confident, Arizona: Ellerton high school's high-maintenance...

10) Skim

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"Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school in the early '90s. When her classmate Katie Matthews is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself, the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. Suicide, depression, love, homosexuality, crushes, cliques of popular, manipulative peers-- the whole gamut of teen life is explored in this poignant glimpse into the heartache of being 16.

11) The shattering

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When a rash of suicides disturbs Summerton, an oddly perfect tourist town on the west coast of New Zealand, the younger siblings of the dead boys become suspicious and begin an investigation that reveals dark secrets and puts them in grave danger.

12) Under the Wolf, Under the Dog

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I'm what they call a Gray Grouper. The Red Groupers are the junkies and the Blue Groupers are the suicide kids. Steve Nugent is in a facility called Burnstone Grove. It's a place for kids who are addicts, like Shannon Lynch, who can stick $1.87 in change up his nose, or for kids who have tried to commit suicide, like Silent Starla, whom Steve is getting a crush on. But Steve doesn't really fit in either group. He used to go to a gifted school. So...

13) The girl is trouble

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Haines, Kathryn Miller

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Iris Anderson mysteries volume 2

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Late 1942 in New York City finds fifteen-year-old Iris helping more with her father's detective business, as long as she follows his rules and learns his techniques, but her investigation into her mother's supposed suicide gets Iris in big trouble--and not just with her father.

14) My beautiful failure

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Young, Janet Ruth

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"While dealing with the recovery of his mentally ill father, sophomore in high school Billy volunteers at a suicide prevention line and falls for one of the incoming callers"--

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Guards of the Shadowlands volume 1

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A week ago, seventeen-year-old Lela Santos's best friend, Nadia, killed herself. Today, thanks to a farewell ritual gone awry, Lela is standing in paradise, looking upon a vast gated city in the distance--hell. No one willingly walks through the Suicide Gates, into a place smothered in darkness and infested with depraved creatures. But Lela isn't just anyone--she's determined to save her best friend's soul, even if it means sacrificing her eternal...

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A troubled girl is stranded in an arctic winter terrain after a plane crash and must fight for survival with the only other boy left alive.

17) unquiet

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18) I'm Depressed. Now What?

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Depression is a very real and serious problem among young adults, and can be fatal if the warning signs are ignored and the condition is left untreated. This impressive volume serves as an approachable resource for teens seeking answers to questions about depression. What is it? What can I do about it? Am I alone? Readers are also provided with information about the biological components of depression and the side effects such as substance abuse and...

19) I'm depressed, now what?

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Owens, Michael L

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Introduces depression, discusses why it occurs, and explores treatment options.

20) Teen Suicide

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Teen mental health

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Today suicide is the third leading cause of death for young people between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four. This absorbing volume explores some of the reasons behind the teen suicides. It explains that there are other ways to address problems that are causing someone pain or feelings of hopelessness. Teens will learn about the possible warning signs of someone who might be thinking of committing suicide and methods of intervention. The final chapter...