TW: Suicide, frankness (if you’re having a hard time reading the article than my comment is not a good one for you)

Thank you for all that wrote. You reminded me of something, and I even looked it up to make sure that I wasn’t mixing memories. When I was little, my cousin was sent from Quakertown, PA to my grandmother’s house across the state after a group of teen suicides. She was not happy to have to go high school away from her…

I’m not sure I should reply at all. Please ignore this if it’s not helpful. But, for me anyway, there were two quite different aspects when I went through my suicidal period of life. One, it was different in regards to ‘peacefully eliminating your distress’ being a fiction. For me it was a certain reality. I knew…

I actually thought the wrist-slitting scene was a lot more visceral than others I’ve seen. She showed actual pain where other people just slice thru like it’s warm butter and that doesn’t seem realistic to me.

Please excuse me if this isn’t the case, but I feel like you’ve spent a lot more time with intensely suicidal teens than you have more stable teens (with and without mental illnesses).

Thanks for articulating my thoughts better than I could’ve!

The only evidence I have is the very real impact it has had on the teens in the psychological clinics that I’m training in. It has had a stark negative impact on especially teens in DBT who were already at risk for self-injury or suicide, and we’ve seen a dramatic increase in crisis calls, directly related to the…

As someone who was immensely suicidal as a teen (engaged in self harm, plotted actual suicide), I watched the series and it brought up a lot of old feelings and I can say from my own experience that teenage me would have loved this show and found comfort in it.

I didn’t see it that way either, and I’ve been depressed and passively suicidal. I thought it showed just how wrecked those who cared for her were. Just because they showed Hannah in a flowy dress or soft lightning doesn’t mean they were glamorizing. Few of her peers had any more sympathy for her after the fact.

Yeah but... She’s a teenager going through trauma. Do you think most teens raise their hands and say “excuse me I’m continually getting harassed and I’ve been assaulted, I need help!” Of course they don’t. They’re kids and they don’t have the resources or coping mechanisms to ask for help most of the time. That was…

I think the show was trying to say that Hannah needed help, and that she was just as much one of the reasons why as anyone else, since there were times when she was actively pushing people away who WERE trying to help her or not giving them the information she knew they needed to help her, but I don’t know.

I am torn about this series. Personally, I thought it was very well done and to me what really stood out was the impact that Hannah’s suicide had on those she left behind. I didn’t see it as some revenge fantasy, I saw it as a girl who had been hurt explaining why she did what she did and seeing the reactions of those…

Suicide contagion is a serious issue, but it seems like the producers of this show had the various recommendations - not showing a single cause, displaying some of the more obvious signs of a person in distress, etc - for covering suicide in mind.