Episode 14: Breaking the silence on teen suicide
Teen Junction Podcast · 7 October 2025 · 51m
Speaker 1: A sleek, fresh and fast everyone anyway can hop on to primemediaplus dot com. Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Teen Junction podcast. As always, we're so Speaker 2: grateful to all our listeners and all of you that constantly reach out to us Speaker 2: on our social media platforms Instagram and Facebook. Wherever you're listening to us from whatever Speaker 2: podcast platform, remember to follow us, subscribe to us, like us so that more people Speaker 2: can find out about us, and this podcast will continue to grow and help others. Speaker 2: Today's episode is a very heavy one, but a very very important one, and it Speaker 2: could be triggering for some listening. We're talking teenagers' mental health, but in particular we're Speaker 2: talking suicide. It's a conversation that comes from a deep care and concern for our Speaker 2: teenagers. If you do feel triggered by what you here today, please reach out to Speaker 2: somebody. We will give details at the end of this episode of organizations and places Speaker 2: you can go for help personally. This is the hardest Teen Junction episode I've ever Speaker 2: had to record. It's an extremely sensitive conversation, but I hope it'll be one filled Speaker 2: with love and hope and practical insight. On the fourth of August in twenty twenty Speaker 2: four, Matthew Earnston, a Grade ten pupil at King Edward High School for Boys in Speaker 2: Johannesburg, took his own life. It was a story that rocked the community, and one Speaker 2: year on, we're still feeling the ripple effects of Matthew's loss. Apart from a large Speaker 2: grieving community, a lot of friends and family, Matthew also…
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