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Originally Posted by Reiwa
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Well you don't tell the kids about suicide. Do you?
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Conferences about suicide prevention awareness always result in an increase in reports of suicidal thoughts in schools. This creates the chicken or the egg argument, did the conference suggest the outcome or did it encourage the kid already thinking it to come forward? Or was it a little of both
One thing that seems to imply discussion of suicide suggests it is a solution is the fact that a child completing suicide in a school will often set off a chain reaction of other suicides in that school. My state made national news when we had like 7 in a short period of time in a particular school or district
By focusing on the positive you are also preventing the negative. So I would always suggest to instead have that be the focus of the discussion, and only address the negative with the specific individual or pertains to after it has come up