“It’s destroyed my family and we are still piecing our lives back together.”
team reached out a few days before the show premiered and asked the nonprofit organization — which focuses on teen mental health and suicide prevention — to review it. “When we heard from them, the production was completely done and the train had left the station, effectively,” Schwartz said at the time.from the American Psychiatric Association also say that “the realistic portrayal of mental illness in television and movies can be an effective way to reduce stigma around psychiatric issues.
This is an important change as it focuses the viewers’ attention and emotions on how Hannah’s actions affected others, said Dr. Christine Moutier, chief medical officer at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. A character “living through a suicidal crisis is obviously the most positive [thing to see in fiction],” she said, “but after a suicide death has occurred, then showing the loss experience as the tragic and complex type of grief that it is is actually a good thing.
“It’s been consensus in the suicide prevention field, and then the research field around suicide and suicide prevention, that graphic portrayal of suicide, whether it’s in a fiction or whether it’s in news media, is to be avoided,” Moutier said.While a number of psychologicaland its impact on viewers have been published in recent years, Moutier said they yielded conflicting results and weren’t necessarily directly indicative of the show’s influence over young viewers.
But Deithorn isn’t among those heaping praise on Netflix, as she still blames it after the death of her daughter.
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