[Warning: contains difficult subject matter] As Matthew van Antwerpen, a 17-year-old in suburban Dallas, struggled with remote schooling during the pandemic last year, he grew increasingly despondent. Searching online, he found a website about suicide.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny enjoyment or progress I make in my life simply comes across as forced,\u201d he wrote on the site after signing up. \u201cI know it is all just a distraction to blow time until the end.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roberta Barbos, a 22-year-old student at the University of Glasgow, first posted after a breakup, writing that she was \u201cunbearably lonely.\u201d Shawn Shatto, 25, described feeling miserable at her warehouse job in Pennsylvania. And Daniel Dal Canto, a 16-year-old in Salt Lake City, shared his fears that an undiagnosed stomach ailment might never get better.<\/p>\n
Soon after joining, each of them was dead.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n As a reporter covering mental health & a mother I am horrified by \u2066@nytimes<\/a>\u2069 reporting. And think if we don\u2019t recognize & stop this we will keep losing people. (huge warning-deals with suicide) https:\/\/t.co\/eFhSBEfvUQ<\/a><\/p>\n — Kate Snow (@tvkatesnow) December 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n