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Support Group for Latina Teens in Milwaukee Confronts Depression, Suicide

Cielo Ruiz, one of the SEEDS participants.
Credit Sophia Boyd / Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
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All Lismari Montes, 15, had to do was find the bottle of prescribed sleeping pills that were hidden in her parent’s room. “I’m done” was all she could think as she walked upstairs to her room, yearning for escape from her exhausting fight with depression.

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