In recent days, I’ve been given cause to reflect on the potentially devastating consequences of mental illness in teenagers and young adults – more specifically on the consequences of young people not receiving the help they need when they need it. Suicide is always a tragedy, heart-breaking, painful, but when it’s a young person who takes their own life, for me there is an added dimension to the sadness – the tragedy of a young life wasted, of potential unexplored and unfulf