13 Reasons Why’ led to more youth suicides, new study suggests
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In the Netflix show 13 Reasons Why, 17-year-old Hannah kills herself in a scene that shows her suicide. Following the show’s release, researchers raised concerns about the possibility that it could lead to suicide contagion, in which explicit depictions of self-harm can lead people to copy the method.
Now, a study of suicide rates among children in the US between the ages of 10 and 17 has found a 28.9 per cent rise in April 2017, the month after the show was released.
Guest: Dr Lisa Horowitz
Staff Scientist and pediatric Psychologist at the National Institute of Mental Health in the US
In the Netflix show 13 Reasons Why, 17-year-old Hannah kills herself in a scene that shows her suicide. Following the show’s release, researchers raised concerns about the possibility that it could lead to suicide contagion, in which explicit depictions of self-harm can lead people to copy the method.
Now, a study of suicide rates among children in the US between the ages of 10 and 17 has found a 28.9 per cent rise in April 2017, the month after the show was released.
Guest: Dr Lisa Horowitz
Staff Scientist and pediatric Psychologist at the National Institute of Mental Health in the US