Thomas Murphy

And the teachers all share emails that say, I knew this kid was going to do something like this.

But behavior is a form of communication.

The kid's telling us something.

That kid's name was Dan.

Dan took his own life.

My partner Rick has his Slipknot bracelet today.

You know, it's not one thing, man.

It's the feeling of hopelessness that you can't get out of.

That's Jonathan Haidt's new book, The Anxious Generation, tries to attempt to answer that on the social media side.

I'll tell you, there's common threads that weave between all of us.

And what are the two things that connect all of us?

Number one, some kind of meaning, some kind of purpose, some kind of significance.

When you look at why 22 service members end their own lives every day in this country, that's one of the greatest battles that they have.

You go away to war.

You come back.

My partner, Rick, I mean, if you look at him, he was a 25-year-old when he got blown up.

70% of his body was instantly taken from him.

He was a leader.

He was a soldier.

Gone.