Instead of taking his life, the young man calls the US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.
“It’s holding on, though the road’s long, seeing light in the darkest things,” Cara sang.
They’re like, ‘Oh, this guy is like me.’ And so I think openly discussing depression and anxiety and the darker side of life …
Sharing his prior history with depression, “certainly makes his message more authentic, and helps suicidal people identify with the lyrics more strongly,” psychiatrist Dr.
This “copycat” syndrome gets its name from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 1774 book “The Sorrows of Young Werther,” in which young Werther takes his life when he cannot have the woman he loves.
In one study, Niederkrotenthaler said, “we found that such reports were associated with an average 13% increase in suicides in the month after the reporting.