![]() ![]() Two years ago, Sloane's brother, Brady committed suicide. When seventeen year old Sloane Barstow witnesses her classmate, Kendra Phillips, being removed by a handler during school, she is terrified and barely hanging on to reality. ![]() There is a Wellness Center which provides a place for returners and normals to interact and get familiar with each other again. They usually never return to their old life with so many missing memories. "Returners" go into aftercare, with special handlers who monitor them for relapse. ![]() Once in The Program, all the "infected memories" are erased and a person is returned to his family without any trace of those memories that made him/her depressed. Once a teen is identified as at risk, handlers are brought in and the person is placed into The Program. Students are closely monitored for signs of depression or suicide and flagged if a threat is determined. ![]() To fight the outbreak of suicide and depression, some school districts have implemented a treatment plan called The Program. Psychologists believe that suicide is a behavioural contagion - that one suicide leads to another. Teen suicide has reached epidemic proportions in America, killing one in three teens, while the suicide rate for adults has remained stable. ![]()
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