Gone Without Goodbye: The Truth About Suicide

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

Education, Society & Culture

4.3 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Suicide touches every family, every community, and too often leaves loved ones with more questions than answers. Every 11 minutes, an American takes their own life. It's the leading cause of death among our youth. Why is nobody listening when our children are screaming for help from the edge? In harrowing cases, children have reached a desperate breaking point, crying out for intervention—yet some schools remained silent and the adults in the room failed to act. How do these tragedies unfold, and what does it say about the systems meant to protect our youth? Dr. Phil will peel back the layers of a devastating failure and search for answers that might save many more lives. Thank you to our sponsors: Beam: Visit https://ShopBeam.com/DrPhil/ and use code DRPHIL for up to 40% off.

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0:00.0	Every 11 minutes, an American takes their own life.
0:03.3	Just six weeks between you learning about the depression,
0:07.3	your daughter took her own life.
0:09.2	And her frustration showed they're not helping me, Mom.
0:12.0	After relentless bullying in middle school,
0:14.0	Ty's 12-year-old daughter was pushed to a desperate act.
0:17.1	What were they calling her?
0:18.1	Black, talking about her picking cotton.
0:20.2	You set up meetings. You talked to the school.
0:22.6	Church were just letting the kids do what they met.
0:24.6	My frustration here is where are the adults?
0:27.6	Tonight we confront one of the most urgent and heartbreaking crises of our time.
0:43.8	Suicide.
0:45.3	Every 11 minutes, an American takes their own life.
0:48.9	It's the second leading cause of death among our youth.
0:52.8	Why is nobody listening to our children?
0:55.2	Children that are screaming for help often from the edge.
1:00.2	In horroring cases, children have reached a desperate breaking point,
1:05.2	crying out for intervention, and yet oftentimes schools are involved and they have remained silent.
1:13.6	And the adults in the room have failed to act.
1:18.6	How do these tragedies unfold?
1:21.6	And what does it say about the system meant to protect our youth?
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