alt Hacker NewsOne observation I made when I was a teacher was that the more we did to help students (as a cohort) with their mental health, the worse it became. My theory is that teenagers are experimenting with different identities, so when you give them a seminar on anxiety and depression, some of them try those on for size. Moral of the story: trying to pre-emptively solve a problem can cause the problem or cause a different problem.
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grebc • yesterday at 9:02 PM
Children are easily led on, and if we’re being honest most adults are too.
Arodex • yesterday at 9:21 PM
It is a well established fact now that suicide is contagious. Just the mention of it is enough to cause a spike in suicide attempts.
Then how do you tell people that they can be helped about it without triggering the very thing?
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I once heard a lecture from an attorney, one of his tenets was as to completely avoid topics you don’t want opposing council to clue in on and attack. Don’t they to preempt it, just ignore it entirely unless you’re forced to confront it.
The analogy was “don’t tell your kid not to stick crayons in their nose” - otherwise, well, they most certainly will latch on to the topic and do so.