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Teen Suicide: Teenagers Have Problems Too We are young and carefree. We go out all day to wild parties until complete exhaustion makes us return home at night. Binge drinking, mischievous behavior, and experimenting with drugs constitute part of some teens’ lives. Many adults do not think about a teen like this being depressed or having thoughts of suicide. They know nothing of the real stresses adults face. Many believe the problems teenagers have are trivial to those of grown adults. This is not always true. He was sixteen at the time. He came from a strict Spanish family and was a sophomore at my school. He was an occasional troublemaker but presented no threat to anyone. He got below par to average grades, seemed to try hard to please his peers, and was generally a fun loving kid. His parents would come down on him because he did not live up to the standards his two older brothers set for him. They were both at the top of their class and very athletic. He, on the other hand, turned to drugs and started selling them at school. When his parents teen, suicide, parents, suicidal, one, teens, should, adults, help, time, must, life, death, thoughts, school, often, much, friends, emotional, about, talk, take, suicides, signs, problems, people, parent, out, friend, drugs, counseling, child, because, adolescent, way