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Over the past six months, four students at Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto, Calif., have committed suicide in the same location, using the same method: stepping in front of an oncoming commuter train.
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Instead of asking if it's contagious (ridiculous) why don't you start looking at the numbers of medicated youth and suicides. You'll find more answers there.
Absolutely. I think there could be a number of factors contributing to the rise in teenage suicides since the 50's and 60's - medication and drug use in general inc an increase in alcohol use, which is very much a depressant, unstable home environments and diet! People's diets are shocking these days, processed foods and toxins I'm sure causes all kind of illnesses including depression.
as well as unattainable social expectations and pressures that didn't exist to the same extent in the 50's and 60's
I knew one of the teens who committed suicide at Gunn. He had everything going for him and no one suspected that he might do this. As a parent, it's really scary to learn of events like this.
There is a town in Wales I think, Bridgend, where something like 23 or 25 (around that number) of young people killed themselves in the space of two years. For a while on the news there seemed to be one or two per month. I don't know about contagious, but when it happens in a peer group (and Bridgend is a relatively small town) it seems to normalise suicide, almost 'giving permission' for others to follow suit.
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First Posted: 11- 4-09 02:20 AM | Updated: 11- 4-09 02:24 AM