Andrea Durrheim examines teen social media risk without pretending bans can solve everything. The article urges parents to build trust, model healthier habits, teach online literacy, and help teens balance safety, autonomy, connection, and mental health.

Jillian Eidem introduces Vital Voyage's Teen Suicide Prevention Series with an urgent look at teen mental health, suicide risk, social media pressure, academic stress, substance use, warning signs, and the small acts of connection that can keep young people from feeling alone.

Damon R. Postle, Ph.D., writes with brutal honesty about surviving the suicide death of his brother Matt, the last words between them, missed goodbyes, hospitalization, stroke, and the unbearable silence left when a musician is gone. A raw grief essay about guilt, trauma, love, and staying alive.