Laura Gallier

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  May 3, 2024

  Pro-choice and anti-suicide: A conflicting message to students

  We hold sympathetic candlelight vigils in the aftermath of teen suicides, as we should, yet as a society, we march holding signs with calloused statements such as, “I had an abortion. Deal with it.”

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  Mar 16, 2024

  The most overlooked culprit in today’s mental health crisis

  To be clear, this culprit is at the core of nearly every mental health struggle, from mild bouts of anxiety to the most severe cases of mental illness.

• Dec 7, 2017

  13 Reasons Why Students Need to Read The Delusion, a Young Adult Novel about Teen Suicide

  If you're a teenager or the parent of one, you've probably heard of the Netflix original series 13 Reasons Why. My eighth-grade daughter described the teen drama to me this way: "It's about suicide, and lots of my friends are watching it, but Mom, it's, like, making some of them depressed and stuff."