The percentage of children ages 5 to 17 who are hospitalized for suicidal thoughts or actions has more than doubled from 2008 to 2015,

Dylan Minnette as Clay Jensen and Katherine Langford as Hannah Baker in Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why.” (Beth Dubber/Netflix)

1.  According to an alarming new report, presented at the 2017 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting in San Francisco. children between the ages of 15 to 17 accounted for slightly more than half of the incidences, and researchers noted a slight increase in hospitalizations coinciding with the beginning and the ending of the school year. (Travis M. Andrews).