Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness

(solemn music) Maclayn went to school, then we got a call from the counselor that he had really talked about, "I don't have a purpose here, I'm done." And just kept saying the words, "I'm done. I'm done." He never said the word suicide But when he starts asking those questions, I mean- At nine - You just wanna crawl in a corner and cry yourself. It was terrible. - We don't know what to do. We had no idea what we were supposed to do. We took him to the emergency room and it was terrible. Even just uttering the words to the front desk people, like, "We're here with Maclayn and he's having thoughts of ending his life. We were told that if we went to the emergency room that you would have a faster response time in seeing a psychiatrist." But it took us four months. (solemn music) (soothing music)