Almost 1,000,000 teens think suicide.

• Position: YOUR LIFE - Brief article

Almost 1,000,000 adolescents had made a plan to commit suicide during their worst or most recent episode of major depression, and 712,000 attempted suicide during such episodes, contends a study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Washington, D.C.

The report defines "major depressive episode" as a period of at least two weeks in which a person experiences a depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities and has at least five of the nine symptoms of depression described in the psychiatrists' Diagnostic and...