Egan: Living with a suicidal child — a family's cry for help

Shannon McDonald first called in March 2018. “Hello” was followed by panic and tears. This wasn’t news. This was life.
Her daughter, Julia, 17, was in crisis, in the grips of multiple suicidal waves, and being kept in isolation at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario where no treatment seemed to be working. But, surely, she was in the best place in the city for a young person in a mental health emergency?
She spent 70 days there, then another 120 at the Roberts/Smar