For years, the rates of mental health struggles among teens have been on the rise in the United States. By 2019, the number of children between the ages of 3 to 17 with a diagnosed mental or behavioral health condition rose to over 8 million.
Honey Beuf founded The Liv Project after her 19-year-old daughter committed suicide in 2019 and wants other parents to have 'difficult' conversations with kids around mental health.Eva Long was a funny, bright and goofy child who became a talented singer, piano player and songwriter in her teen years, according to her mom, Caroline Long.
"In eighth grade she had a phone and the social media thing was starting ... all the posing that the girls do, and the pictures. All that stuff, that was the beginning of it," said Long, who lives in Colorado."Going into her freshman and sophomore years, she was just kind of struggling to figure out who her friends were."
"They stopped having school in person, so they all had to do online classes," Long said."It was very isolating for all the kids, and for Eva, it was really, really devastating because she scrolled through social media that much more. There was just a huge disconnect from actually engaging with people."
It was the same grief-stricken cry Honey Beuf said she experienced two years earlier when she received a phone call on Jan. 8, 2019, that her then-19-year-old daughter, Liv, had been taken to the hospital while away at college in Colorado."What you go through as a parent is you feel everything so viscerally and on a cellular level, it's so incredibly awful. I sometimes have such a hard time putting it into words," said Beuf.
Liv was also a member of the LGBTQ+ community, according to Beuf, one of the populations of young people identified as most at-risk for suicide,Though Liv was open with her parents and siblings about her mental health struggles, she hid it from her peers at college, which Beuf said she believes was a"huge contributing factor" to her death.Liv Beuf is photographed playing piano, which her family says was one of her passions.
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