Focus: Glorifying suicide?
- 2017-09-06
- By Psychologist DPC
- Posted in Adolescents, Society, Well-being
In the UAE, a school asked parents to beware of a TV show ‘13 Reasons Why’, a teen drama which shows a high schoolgirl who kills herself. The school claimed that the TV show is “so influential that teenagers nurture thoughts of killing themselves rather than confronting the challenges in life”. We asked Gulf News readers whether such TV shows can actually be held responsible for teen suicides.
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