'13 Reasons Why' influenced the suicide rate? It's not that simple
In the month after the Netflix series "13 Reasons Why" started streaming, the suicide rate for youths 10 to 17 increased by nearly a third, according to a newly released study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. The findings prompted a slew of stories on Tuesday about the "troubling" association between the show and the statistic. But reality is more nuanced than the number.
"We know that suicide is complex and there's no one thing that causes it," says Dr.
