OPINION
Nation must heed Saoirse Kennedy Hill’s warning on mental health ‘privacy’
By Andrea Peyser
August 7, 2019 | 8:20pm | Updated
The Kennedy family gathers at the funeral for Saoirse Kennedy Hill.
Boston Globe via Getty Images
Saoirse Kennedy Hill may have had part of the answer to the mass shootings plaguing the nation. But although she shouted it to the rooftops, no one in authority would listen.
They must listen now. Three years before her death last week at age 22 from an apparent overdose at her family’s compound on Cape Cod, Saoirse, a granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, wrote a heartbreaking piece in her school newspaper about her struggles with depression and other forms of mental illness. She was scared, suicidal. She cried out for help.
But as she told it, the law of the land prevented people on whom she depended from getting close. It isn’t known if she intentionally ended her life. But she was drowning.
“My sense of well-being was already compromised, and I totally lost it after someone I knew and loved broke serious sexual boundaries with me,” Saoirse wrote in The Deerfield Scroll, the newspaper for the elite Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts. “I did the worst thing a victim can do, and I pretended it hadn’t happened. This all became too much, and I attempted to take my own life.”
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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2019/08/07/nation-must-heed-saoirse-kennedy-hills-warning-on-mental-health-privacy/
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