future criminologist
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I'm sorry - I just can't equate a sheltered teenager with a suicidal teenager showing no outward signs.
a lot of people show no outward signs. I was hospitalized at 19 for depression and my parents were shocked to learn that I had been depressed for years. Most people know so little about mental illness to begin with that they wouldn't even know what the outward signs were if it hit them on the head. that's why after a suicide people always say "but he was always smiling!" as if one can't fake a smile or is going to say to everyone, "I hate my life and I want to die".