SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY - Health care professionals gathered Friday at Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton to discuss suicide prevention.  More than a dozen representatives from Lackawanna County hospitals attended the forum to talk about a deeply troubling topic.  They discussed ideas and solutions to curb youth suicide.  Lackawanna County has one of Pennsylvania's highest rates for youth suicide and suicide attempts -- a statistic all the more disturbing because the signs are often overlooked. "People will think, well a kid. That's a teenager or that, you know, they're moody, they're isolating," said Kathy Wallace, the director of Advocacy Alliance.  But some young people have what experts call tunnel vision -- seeing no other solution but taking their life.  "It really is a very fine line sometimes between isolating and feeling down and if a trigger happens like loss of a relationship, failing tests even -- depending on that individual -- it could trigger someone into feeling hopeless," she said.

Lackawanna County is one of three Pennsylvania counties that received a federally funded youth suicide prevention grant.  It allows primary care physicians to screen patients from 14 to 24 years of age for suicide as part of a physical health care visit.