Research clearly shows that these images have an influence on suicidal behaviors, but how this occurs is far more important to me, it is very possible that provocative experiences have a desensitizing effect that makes suicidal behaviors more likely.

Eric Beeson

Categorized in : Health News

I appreciated the depiction of suicide as a process. There is no singular cause for suicide, and the show depicted the cumulative effect of multiple life experiences leading up to Hannah's suicide. Even though I don't like that the show sometimes vilified the people in the tapes as the 'reasons' why Hannah killed herself, one narrative that has been lost in the controversy about this show is the belief by some of the characters that things had to get better, they had to care and treat one another better.

I can't say that there is a group of people that 'shouldn't' watch this show. I think it is more important how people watch it, with whom, and how it is processed afterward.