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Reflections on the Silicon Valley Teen Suicides-by-Train: Fifteen Years Later

Mad in America

But back in 2009-2010, the years of the first of three “suicide clusters” in Palo Alto, teen suicides across America were rarer. The suicides seemed to trigger a general darkening in the mood at the schools. And as we later found out, only 46% of the kids who died by suicide even had a known mental health problem.