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Mental health professionals offer advice in wake of 12-year-old boy's suicide
by Lincoln Graves, KUTV
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A Tooele County family is heartbroken with the loss of their 12-year-old boy who took his own life after he was bullied at school over the past year. (Photo: Courtesy of the Hardman family)
(KUTV) —

The recent suicide of a 12-year-old boy in Tooele County has rattled parents across Utah.

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“It’s natural to be worried,” said Annie Deming, PhD, a licensed psychologist and clinical director of pediatric behavioral health at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital. “You want to be attuned to your child and you want to make sure you’re not denying that there could potentially be something wrong, and at the same time, you don’t want to over worry because that’s not helpful either.”

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