Texting Hotlines Helpful to Teens in Mental Health Crisis With the number of teens reporting mental health problems drastically increasing during the pandemic, text message-based crisis services like the one launched by the Trevor Project in 2014 are seeing increased use. by Laura Damon, Newport Daily News, R.I. / April 12, 2021 Hospitals have been raising alarms during the pandemic that the teen suicide risk, already the second leading cause of death between adolescents aged 15 to 19 years, appears to be rising. The director of the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence told The Providence Journal they have seen a "massive pandemic of mentally ill adolescents," to the point where three-quarters of the patients in the hospital were adolescents who wanted to hurt themselves because of mental illness.