Teen Suicide Spiked After Debut Of Netflix’s ’13 Reasons Why,’ Study Says

Teen Suicide Spiked After Debut Of Netflix’s ’13 Reasons Why,’ Study Says

When Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why was released two years ago, depicting the life of a teenager who decided to take her own life, educators and psychologists warned the program could lead to copycat suicides. In the month following the show’s debut in March 2017, there was a 28.9% increase in suicide among Americans ages 10-17, said the study, published Monday in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. That study found that young adults, ages 18-29, who watched the entire second season of the show “reported declines in suicide ideation and self-harm relative to those who did not watch the show at all.”

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