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Sat 03 Mar 2009Helping an anxious generation
New research shows that many teens with mental health problems feel they have no one to turn to. But one group is trying to change that, writes CARL O'BRIEN, Social Affairs Correspondent
KEITH DOHERTY IS listing the names of friends and loved ones he has lost to suicide over the past few years. “There was David, a few months later it was Darragh, and then another David . . .” says Doherty, a softly spoken 19-year-old from Athboy, Co Meath. “In total I lost five people within two years. Depression and suicide was always around. In most cases, I think, they felt they had no one to turn to or that no one would understand their problems.”
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