{UAH} IS NETFLIX INDUCING TEEN SUICIDE SPIKE?

Netflix-Induced Suicide? Teen Suicide Spikes 29% Since Release Of “13 Reasons Why”

If you want yet another reason to boycott Netflix, read on.

Suicide is the third leading cause of death among Americans between the ages of 10 and 24, according to data from the CDC.

This is crippling.

In addition, studies also show that publicized suicie trigger a ripple effect of suicide within communities.

The Netflix series “13 Reasons Why,” which is executive produced by pop star Selena Gomez, is based on a novel by Jay Asher about a 17-year-old girl who kills herself. Before doing so, she makes 13 cassette tapes, each addressed to someone at her school, which details how they contributed to her desire to take her own life.

The show also features a very disturbing and graphic scene of the girl’s suicide.

Fellowship of the Minds blog notes that “Before and after Netflix aired the first season of ‘13 Reasons Why’ on March 31, 2017, and a second season on May 18, 2018, warnings and alarms were raised about the show.

They were:

• Several mental health groups, including the Royal College of Psychiatrists, had condemned the show as romanticizing suicide.

• The UK’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children reported that young people had cited the show as a trigger for suicidal thoughts.

• In April 2017, a Florida schools superintendent warned parents that the show was inspiring an increase in self-harming and suicidal threats among elementary and middle school students.

• A survey published in November 2018 found that of 87 suicidal teenagers aged 13 to 17 who were taken to the emergency department, 43 of them said that they had watched at least one episode of “13 Reasons Why”. Of those who had seen the show, 21 reported that they believe it had increased their risk for suicide.

• In May 2019, Don Mordecai, Kaiser Permanente’s national leader for mental health, told Business Insider: “There was a kind of romanticization, and at the core of the story was this idea that you can kill yourself and be dead and yet not really be dead. Because, of course, (Baker) continues to be a character – she’s in scenes, and she’s still there in many ways.”

Now, FOTM blog reports, a study confirms that the show did in fact seem to trigger an increase in teen suicides.

This is horrific.

The Catholic News Agency reports, June 7, 2019, that a new study, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, found a 28.9% increase in suicide rates in U.S. boys ages 10-17 in the month (April 2017) following the debut of “13 Reasons Why”. Increases in suicide rates among youth were also found in the month leading up to the show’s release, and through December 2017, nine months after its release.

The study was conducted by multiple researchers from several different universities, hospitals, and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), which funded the study. For the study, researchers analyzed death rates due to suicide based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s web-based Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research.

The study found that the increase in suicides was statistically significant among young males; the increase in suicides among young females in association with the show was not statistically significant. Researchers found the increase in suicide rates even after adjusting for otherwise expected suicide rates during that time period, based on ongoing suicide trends. They also found that suicide rates did not increase during the studied time period for people ages 18-64.

In a press release on the study, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) said:

The number of deaths by suicide recorded in April 2017 was greater than the number seen in any single month during the five-year period examined by the researchers. The findings highlight the necessity of using best practices when portraying suicide in popular entertainment and in the media.

This is so beyond disturbing.

What posessess people to create content for young people that romanticises and encourages suicide for the sake of pulling a profit?

We live in a culture of death, and this is exactly why. Suicide, depression, self-harm, substance abuse are all on the rise, and why?

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