How to Talk About LGBT Suicide in the Media
With a heightened visibility of young people committing suicide in the media, we need to be able to talk about these tragedies without causing more youth attempting to take their own lives. We walk a fine line between bringing awareness to severe problems happening in our society and running the risk of causing suicide contagion. Suicide contagion is the increase of deaths by suicide because of certain kinds of public visibility about suicide.
In simplified terms; when someone is already at a low point in mental health and contemplating whether or not to attempt suicide, their risk may go up when they see other suicide in the media. They may see this boost in media publicity as “fame,” and feel that suicide is a way to give their life meaning.
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