 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 13 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 and 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 ring that notification bell so some of my first videos that actually took off on youtube were my season two videos about 13 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 who don't know the show is based on a book and it follows teenagers and ascenders 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 and 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 because I'm in different mental health groups I follow a bunch of different mental health twitter accounts 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 it is but anyways I'm gonna be reading from the NPR article so the so NPR didn't actually do this study but I'm gonna read their article and link it down below and they talk about the study okay so it first says in the month following the show's debut in March 2017 there was a 28.9 increase in suicide among Americans ages 10 to 17 said the study published Monday in the Journal 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 195 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 cautioned 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 when they're 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 was 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 all right 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 watched the entire second season of the show 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 technically an adult 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 and by the way disclaimer i'm not a licensed therapist or a psychologist but there's something i'm very passionate about and 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 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 can 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're in high school you're like oh you know there there's the popular kids there's these people there's that you think it's going to be like this forever but everybody once you leave high school is 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 can'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 i 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 now for kids 10 to 17 how suicide rates jumped up like i was actually just talking to dr mark ghoston 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 to him about this and today he's actually speaking on a panel at a high school um and it's about 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 etiquette videos but this is one of the reasons why people who are suicidal when they go to a psych hospital they're they're 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 regulation 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 where my opinion comes in about 13 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 like 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 what we'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 goes for like two things two things okay as parents i'm a parent some of you are parents maybe you're an 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 they'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 in a 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 everything's 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 the 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 them about this we need to intervene sooner than uh later we need to know what the signs are of depression of potential suicide we have to know these things all right um i was watching uh the video by ask a mortician about the the what happened at columbine and she talked about how uh one of the guys moms is actually out there and like trying to increase awareness about all this stuff too to try to help prevent future school shootings which is also something that was touched on in 13 reasons why all right but anyways again i've linked the article down below please let me know your thoughts your comments down below i know 13 reasons why it's trying to do a better job um putting in disclaimers and they did a bunch of stuff before season two 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 all right but anyways that's all i got for this video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because i'm making a ton of videos and thank you so so much to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon and if you like what i'm doing here you want to help support the channel get involved in our monthly q and a and all that stuff click a top on that patreon icon right there all right thanks again so so much for watching i'll see you next time