13 reasons why is a hit show on Netflix it's already had two seasons and they're
gearing up for the third season and ever since this series first launched over on
Netflix there's been a lot a lot of controversy around it and just recently
there's been a new study correlating the launch of season one of thirteen reasons
why and teenage suicide and that's exactly what we're going to be talking
about in this video but there is a very strong trigger
warning because we are going to be talking about sensitive subjects if you
are somebody who is struggling right now please check out the description turn
off this video and dial the suicide helpline what is up everybody this is
Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the
solution if you're new to my channel something that I'm very very very
passionate about is mental health awareness and I also like to take topics
that are going on in pop culture or in the YouTube community and things like
that so if you're into that make sure you subscribe and bring that
notification about so some of my first videos that actually took off on YouTube
were by season two videos about thirteen reasons why I did a lot of character
breakdowns I did some social commentary because like I mentioned this show has
been very controversial so the history of it and for those of you don't know
the show is based on a book and it follows teenagers and the centers around
a young woman by the name of Hannah who ends up taking her own life for multiple
reasons right and a lot of people like spoke out against this when it first
launched saying like oh this romanticizes suicide this is dangerous
they don't have the proper information going out there there's so many issues
right and I was somebody who actually defended the show and at the end of this
video I'm going to give my thoughts and opinions but I'm just trying to give you
the context of what's actually happening right now because a major story just got
released I saw this being shared all over the place there's are many
different mental health groups I follow a bunch of different mental health put
our cats and everything like that but I I am somebody who was of the belief that
this isn't really affecting people in the way they think
fuck anyways I'm gonna be reading from the NPR articles to the ink so NPR
didn't actually do this study but I'm gonna read their article and link it
down below and they talked about the study okay so it first says in the month
following the show's debut in March 2017 there was a twenty eight point nine
increase in suicide among Americans ages 10 to 17 said the study published Monday
in the Journal of a myth of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry the number of suicides was greater than seen in any single month
over the five-year period researchers examined over the rest of the year there
were a hundred ninety five more youth suicides than expected given historical
trends so it then goes on to say this and this is very very very important
okay because we look at correlation and we look at causation all right so it
says researchers warned that their study could not prove causation some unknown
third factor might have been responsible for increase they said still citing the
strong correlation they caution against exposing children and adolescents to the
series okay so correlation versus causation a lot of studies show
correlation it is not very often especially with mental health where you
see causation like for example there was a correlation between people who grew up
in an abusive household and then getting into an abusive relationship and their
older or being an abuser in relationship so what this study is saying is like
just looking at the trends looking at when this show is released and suicides
between the age of 10 and 17 they spiked like a 28.7 increase is massive like
that is huge and that's one of the reasons why I want to make this video
because I was personally shocked when I saw how big that increase actually was
alright now the second part of this is what I
think is pretty interesting the spokesperson noted that the study
conflicts with research published last week out of the University of
Pennsylvania that study found that young adults ages 18 to 29 who watch the
entire second season of this reported declines in suicide ideation
and self-harm relative to those who did not watch the show at all so I I think
there's a few things that we could take from these studies all right and again I
will link this down below I would love to know your thoughts and opinions on
this topic down in the comments below so it's saying that between the ages of 10
and 17 suicide rates went up but another study following people who were adults
right or technically and ago 18 to 29 the idea of suicidal ideation dropped so
when I look at this when I look at this and read these stories and read these
studies and everything like that I look at it I'm like okay what's the
difference what's happening here and mental health is becoming more and more
of a topic of conversation right and around 18 to 29 like the college years
your 20s and everything like you've made it through like a brutal part of your
life right high school can be so stressful that is when a lot of symptoms
of mental health issues mental illnesses start to happen by the way disclaimer
I'm not a licensed therapist or psychologist but there's something I'm
very passionate about I do do a lot of research and reading and things like
that so in my opinion what I would guess is people in that age group 18 to 29
they're looking for more solutions right they've seen that they've gone through a
very difficult part of their life and now there's more stuff to look out look
out to right and like here's the thing like in high school like that is your
whole world that is your universe that is your reality everything that happens
there the bullying the teasing not being good enough trying to fit in that is
your entire universe right but it's kind of like being on like an elevator right
and then when the doors open and you could step out into the entire world
okay like in high school or even in middle school you're trapped in this
very small area and once you graduate so many things change like if you're a
teenager watching this I cannot tell you I cannot tell you how much things
changed after high school and you can ask just about any adult right like if
you're an adult watching this let me know down in the comments below because
like when you ask me like oh you know there's the popular kids there's these
people there's that you think it's gonna be like this forever
but everybody once you leave high school it's just a person now there's still
kind of like cliques and like groups and everything like that once you get to
college but like for the most part like you all go your separate ways
like I can't even tell you I couldn't even tell you like all the popular kids
from high school I don't know what they're doing I know some of them fell
off I know some of them like myself became addicted to drugs and alcohol and
everything like that and like I just don't I don't think
enough kids understand how much things are going to change after high school
right so I do believe that you know more people who watch this when they were
older realize like oh my god like this is a wake-up call I need to get help
now for kids 10 to 17 to house suicide rates jumped up like I was actually just
talking to dr. mark Goulston on the phone this morning he's a suicide expert
I've done some videos with him on my channel we're gonna do more in the
future but I was talking about this and today he's actually speaking on a panel
out of high school and it's not suicide prevention and something that he was
telling me he's like everybody gets punched in the face right but it's about
how you get how you react to it like how you react and respond and make sure you
don't do anything dumb while you're still suffering the pain of getting
punched in the face because once you come out on the other side of it you
have this new kind of resilience and he often refers to the 72-hour hold and
I've been talking about that in my editing videos but this is one of the
reasons why people who are suicidal when they go to a psych hospital they're
there on this 72-hour hold right because one of the things is like once you get
away from like the potential of like harming yourself or harming others like
you realize like oh my god like your emotions aren't running as high you
chill out you get this new perspective right and we know we know on a
biological level kids are more impulsive I've talked many times on my channel
about the prefrontal cortex prefrontal cortex is responsible for a wide variety
of things one of them is impulse control one of them is emotional right
relation so kids who do not have a fully developed prefrontal cortex are
impulsive and extremely emotional so they can make very bad decisions based
on their emotions so what is the solution and here's what my opinion
comes in about thirteen reasons why I do believe we need to be talking about this
stuff more and not less like something that I mentioned in my videos about the
second season when I was doing my character breakdowns and just kind of
social commentary on what was going on was that there's this idea there's this
idea of don't talk to kids about serious subjects like suicide and mental health
and maybe bad things won't happen and that is absolutely ridiculous absolutely
ridiculous all right so we as adults I'm a parent we need to keep those lines of
communication open but something that this study says and I'll put it up on
the screen right now they're talking about is we have proof there is evidence
that young people are highly influenced by what they are watching all right so
this is this is go straight like two things do things okay as parents I'm a
parent some of your parents may be your aunt maybe you're an uncle maybe you're
just like a mentor to somebody younger than you make sure you know what they're
watching make sure you know what you're watching I'm not saying that you gotta
like spy on them and have all this like monitoring stuff to see what they're
watching you don't need to go that far but have conversations say what are you
watching walk in the room every once while my son
is obsessed with YouTube watches a ton of YouTube I know what creators he's
watching what those creators are about what he's watching and if there's
something that might be a little controversial that he's watching we have
a conversation about it he's only 10 years old the second thing is this goes
back to why I am constantly making videos about youtubers and other things
going on in the YouTube community as well as in pop culture because young
people are influenced by what they are watching and that's why we as creators
have a responsibility to recognize that the young people watching our content
our actions our behaviors are being influenced by that so the overall
message the moral of this story that I want to give to all of you is
as adults we need to have more conversations with our kids we need to
talk to him about this we need to intervene sooner than later
we need to know what the signs are of depression of potential suicide we have
to know these things all right I was watching the video by ask a mortician
about the what happened at Columbine and she talked about how one of the guys
mom's is actually out there and like trying to increase awareness about all
this stuff to to try to help prevent future school shootings which is also
something that was touched on and 13 reasons why all right anyways again I've
linked the article down below please let me know your thoughts your comments down
below I know 13 reasons why I was trying to do
a better job putting in disclaimers and they did a bunch of stuff before season
2 Netflix hasn't made a full statement about this they made something brief
it's in that article if you want to check it out alright anyways that's all
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