Thread by @tylerblack32

I firmly believe there is a cohort of ghoulish people, who will conveniently use one of the most horrific contemplations, children's suicide, to argue for "less covid stuff," and then once they get their selfish, ignorant way, immediately attack the most vulnerable people + kids.

https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1487294924114599937

As a full time emergency child psychiatrist and suicidologist I've been consulted on far too many suicides of children in which I look outside my realm of psychiatry and realize how much there is to fix about who we are and how we treat our kids/families.

In 2019, I was proud to work with @bccoroners on a report looking at deaths of my provinces child suicide, and what we need to fix.

I know the devastation each suicide creates, & intense emotional shockwaves/aftershocks that devastate familes, schools, and communities.

The fixes we need are complex and society has never really tackled with effort and zeal.

Like the disproportionate deaths of Indigenous children that represent past and present systemic and institutionalized racism, trauma, and impacts of colonization.

Or the importance of understanding that when we review deaths of kids, we have to face the reality that our educational system, our societal failure to prevent childhood trauma, and our lack of social and emotional curriculum to help kids with relationships has led to death.

Or that many of our kids who die have diagnoses or mental health concerns but no services to support them or only waitlists to be on.

It's not a fad or a game or a reason to wear/not wear a 3mm piece of cloth on your face, and it's not a thing to be dabbled in as a "scientist" (quotes earned) to make a point about COVID.

Suicide of kids has ALWAYS been a public health, societal, worldwide crisis.