Every show with a suicide now has a disclaimer with a suicide hotline at the beginning. Is there any evidence that these warnings make a positive difference?

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Suicides can be really easy to prevent.

  Like, the hotline itself is incredibly effective, and reminding people it exists would naturally help.

  People aren’t getting the number from the intro, but it reminds them it exists.

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  • Badeendje@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It also helps normalize actually think about it or discussing the subject.

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even though crisis hotlines are common, they have not been well studied for efficacy.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_hotline#:~:text=6 Re….

    Somewhat related, but I think suicide hotlines can be a big problem if they are understaffed. I feel like in my country they are just there to check a box. I’ve had two suicidal crises, both times I called the hotline, waited 20+ minutes and gave up. It made me feel even worse and more lost.

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    • flames5123@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That really sucks. I hope you’re doing better now.

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      :( I’ve been in a similar situation, but I’ve never called; I have friends that I can talk to openly about this stuff, and not freak them out or have them be judgemental. I don’t know you, but I hope you are doing better, and can persevere. Life can be awful, brutal. Being alone in a time of need is… I can’t even think of a word with enough emphasis.

      If you want, you can send me a message. Might not be helpful, but maybe it will. Just say hi, if you want. You aren’t alone. :)

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• psion1369@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I struggle with suicidal ideation problems. They have been so severe in the past that I almost went through it. While not all suicidal scenes trigger me, there are a few. And I have found that having the warnings help me from shutting off the TV and running off in a crying fit. I know it’s coming and can prepare myself. And knowing that the hotline is there has been one of the most comforting things I know of. I may have never called, but it’s there for when I can’t deal on my own. So yes, the warnings make a positive difference for me.

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  • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s amazing how effectively just hearing this from someone who has firsthand insight can put it in perspective.

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    • weststadtgesicht@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And yet this thread is full of comments both confidently and cynically proclaiming that it’s totally useless and only there for the lawyers yada yada

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m OK (now? currently? hopefully forever) but when I’m struggling I too appreciate the warning.

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  • Noedel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The worst about ideation for me is that a few days/weeks/months later, I’m almost always thinking “I was willing to do that? Because of XYZ? That would’ve been so fucking stupid!”

    But in the moment your brain can just be like “topping yourself is clearly the only logical solution” and make you actually believe that shit.

    It’s wild.

    Sorry, I realise this is a bit off topic.

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    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Funny the fictions we contrive for ourselves in our own heads.

      There’s a real need to get ones world view/beliefs and the insecurities and inner critics in line in order to survive it seems.

      That’s my latest conclusion, anyway. Distraction and drinking haven’t really helped. Shocking, I know…

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve said this elsewhere in the thread, but I have had suicidal ideation… ‘events’ as well, never called though. If you want someone to talk to (anyone else, too! yes, that means you, hi!), reach out and message me. I know this shit all too well and I don’t mind in the slightest, talking to someone who needs - or just wants - to communicate with someone who ‘gets it’.

    No pressure, I just want to help others like myself.

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    • psion1369@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is well appreciated.

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• lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Idk, but I bet they think it’s the least they can try. If it saves just one life, it has been worth.

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  • GetOffMyLan@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah it’s like a 0 effort thing to try

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Except it’s not zero effort, zero cost.

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Businesses do not care about people, I can pretty much guarantee those were added in order to waive liability. Example: person commits suicide because they see it in a show, family sues show company because that is linked to the person’s suicide, arguing the show encouraged the person to do it.

    Would that hold up in court? I don’t know, probably not, but the company doesn’t want to deal with that. So they add a warning instead so they can just point to that and it gets thrown out immediately.

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But do we have evidence they’re effective?

    It still takes effort/time/money to do this, and if it has no impact, then that effort/time/money could be used on things that are known to be effective.

    I have no idea how much affect they have. It’s possible they have a negative effect.

    Op’s question is do we have that information?

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    • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How much effort/time/money do you think they put into that white text on black background for 5 seconds?

      It’s negligible, I would be shocked if it wasn’t the same recycled card over and over again that they have some unpaid intern throw in at some point in the final editing stages

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  • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not it. It’s simply that if someone comes suicide after watching, no one can point the finger at the producers.

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• user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Based on what I’ve heard about the US’s 988, it may rather be negative.

  Oh, you’re thinking of killing yourself, let us reinforce that by being absolutely rude, or better yet, time to get taken away by cops into a psych ward.

  Let’s see what’s out there with some example (Reddit)
  Summary: Person called 988, police showed up 90 minutes later, got taken for mandatory psychological evaluation, forced to stay 2 days in ER, ended up getting billed $6,470.

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  • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think this kind of anecdotal horror story exists in every country, but of course it’s not the usual outcome.

    There’s a whole chain of people involved in a process like this, and I have a hard time believing that everyone in that chain routinely locks up healthy people just to give themselves more work to do.

    I think it’s far more likely that there are many people who genuinely should spend a few days in a psych ward but are unable to due to a lack of resources.

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    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The bill is a fairly unique U.S. thing.

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    • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This isn’t anecdotal. It’s really quite a common response that only further traumatizes the victims and leaves them with a financial burden.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well that last part is a US specific issue and people have the right to refuse treatment

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not if you’re “deemed at threat to yourself or others”

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You lose the ability to refuse treatments in any scenario the emergency responders / doctors deem you unfit to make a decision in the best interest of your/someone else health. It’s why “baker acting” in Florida is so controversial. Taking someone against their will and locking them in a facility for a minimum time without any real need of evidence.

      Someone calling and telling them you said you were going to kill yourself is often all the evidence they need to start the process, whether they really said that is up to the emergency responders. For my friends that was 9 cop cars in the middle of the night. They dragged him out of bed at 4am because his partner at the time said he hadn’t been responding to her texts and she told them he was depressed so he might kill himself.

      Once he got out he told me about it all and I’m fairly certain he won’t ever sleep with his phone on silent/vibrate again. (He broke up with them immediately after, but that has nothing to do with consent)

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    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      not if you live in certain US states and you make a threat that your are going to harm yourself or someone else. depends on the state but they can hold you for a psych eval for a few days, maybe a week

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• SirDerpy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  All the lukewarm attempts to help, rooted in shallow understanding, reinforced my suicidal ideation. What’s the value of false love from a paid hotline worker one will never speak to again? It’s negative.

  Be ready to love the shit out of someone yourself. Share their sorrow. Don’t try to fix it. Just try to understand. It’ll fucking suck. The other person knows it sucks for you. Tell them it sucks and that you’re choosing it.

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  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you have read the content on afsp.org/im-having-thoughts-of-suicide/ I’d be interested to hear your take. After my brother committed suicide I found their content for suicide loss survivors to be very helpful, but as a suicide loss survivor I can’t judge the content they have for folks who are considering suicide.

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    • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not the person you replied to but I’ve been passively suicidal for about a decade. I read this article. It seemed a bit prescriptive and patronizing to me. I get the impression that the article is targeted towards people who are acutely suicidal. As someone who’s been chronically suicidal, I’ve noticed that there aren’t many resources that are similar to this for people in my situation. These suicide hotlines seem to be targeted at people who are experiencing acute distress over someone who’s been struggling with mental health for extended periods of time. I’m not going to say these resources are worthless, but they’re worthless to me and I would assume at least a few people who have similar problems. I’ve never felt compelled to reach out or search for resources like this. They’ve always felt insincere, similar to corporate PR speak or celebrity “apologies”. Like these hotlines are there so that people who aren’t suicidal can go “well, we have them a phone number. We don’t need to feel bad that people are suffering cause we did what we could.” I’m sure these hotlines have helped people and they should stick around. I’m just jaded and cynical.

      I asked my wife about suicide hotlines too, she has periods of suicidal ideation and has attempted suicide when she was younger. She said it’s a coin flip for her. They either made her feel more distressed and therefore more suicidal, or they made her slightly less suicidal (enough to not act on it). She said in the moments they helped, they served as a reminder to not provide a permanent solution with a temporary problem. She also hates that phrase but couldn’t find a better way to word it haha.

      I’m not sure if what we said will help or hurt in your processing, but those are our honest perspectives

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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The national suicide prevention hotline is almost always too busy and callers often need to wait on hold. They’ve calibrated everything from the hold music, the script, and the recorded voice to keep callers on the line.

  This factoid splits people pretty evenly between those who find it horrifying and those who find it hilarious.

  I should say that according to the hotline, the changes made to the hold system has resulted in 100,000 fewer hang-ups per year.

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  • neidu2@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you telling me they intentionally avoid playing Van Halen - Jump to anyone put on hold?

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    • Brickhead92@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, you see the trick is to play Jump by Van Halen exactly once at the right time followed immediately by Killing in the name of by Rage Against the Machine.

      This combo is super effective… As long as the stay listen until the end.

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  • Noedel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The word hang up threw me off a little given the context

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  • Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is interesting. Source?

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good question, but I expect as far as whether it should be there or not, it doesn’t really matter. There is no harm in it being there, after all. And in the end, if it helps one single person not kill themself, I’d say that’s a win.

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  • Skates@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is no harm in it being there, after all.

    See, that’s where having the data would be great Because while this is intuitive, it’s not confirmed. I think most shows showing suicide also paint the event in a pretty bad light. What if having the disclaimer there makes someone not want to watch the show, and they continue to glorify suicide, whereas maybe if they watched the show and saw someone in pain after their loved one committed suicide, maybe they’d change their mind.

    I’m not saying this is the case. I would just like to know the numbers, because unless they show a decrease in suicide attempts since the warning/phone number was introduced, then we’re really just speculating if it’s helping, hurting, or just neutral.

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    • towerful@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can say I’ve never glorified suicide. When I’ve been suicidal, suicide is literally the only logical solution my brain can arrive at. It’s completely irrational in hindsight, but it makes so much sense at the time.

      I don’t think I have ever not-watched something due to content warnings alone. But it has alerted me that there may be issues, so it doesn’t surprise me when it comes up.

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• FireTower@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I remember my college had a suicide awareness day where among other things they told people to tell their suicidal friends to call the hotline if they felt suicidal.

  Now imagine you are that person and you reach out to a friend for help only to have them tell you to call someone else in a canned speech you were told to tell others.

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  • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Feeling suicidal usually isn’t something that talking to a friend can resolve.

    Getting a suicidal person to access the right kind of help is the right move.

    That doesn’t mean you refuse to talk to a suicidal person, it means that part of supporting them as a friend is helping them get help.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also as someone who spent a lot of time when I was younger as an untrained suicide counselor, it’s rough on you. Suicidal people should reach out to friends, but understand that if your friends aren’t able to help or keep boundaries there it’s not you, it’s not you being a burden, they may love you very much, but they need to engage in self preservation and the experts have better coping mechanisms, are in therapy, and have professional distance. Being an untrained suicide counselor was both a form of self harm and working through my trauma. I did real good for others and I don’t really regret it, but if you’re feeling the urge to do it, either get trained or get therapy, ideally both. I did later get trained in a form of counseling relevant to my traumas and I’m still comfortable doing that, but suicide counseling is rough at the best of times like being an emotional emt. And like emts they want to get to you in time to help, so if you need them use them, but the untrained are more like first aid, they can keep you around until an emt can get you to a doctor.

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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Two sides to every story. Your friend isn’t your therapist and while instantly reacting with “go call hotline” means you don’t have a friend at all, you cannot expect your friend to be able to bear the weight of your feelings, of your darkest moments with you. Stuff like this ruins people and I know that from experience from both sides. Dealing with suicidal thoughts of other people is extremely stressful and basically a landmine field. You aren’t trained to navigate it properly. You are not objective. And ultimately, other than being a sympathetic ear, you are unable to help them in the way they need help.

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tone matters, like the difference between telling someone they should consider seeing a therapist, and telling someone they need a therapist.

    In text it is still hard, but convincing someone to talk to a professional (not saying they are all doctors or something) because you don’t feel equipped to handle the situation on your own shouldn’t be devastating if you go through a small course like that. Never taken one but just off the cuff I’d say offering to call with them and staying for the conversation until you/they agree they feel comfortable carrying on with the help line or what not on their own before walking away would probably be a decent step in the right direction.

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t think it’s about making a positive difference, it’s about liability.

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  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t doubt that someone might be thinking that, but I do doubt that any lawyer thinks it’s necessary. As far as I know nobody has ever brought suit against a TV show for a suicide case.

    But I’m not an attorney.

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    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure that 13 Reasons Why show had a whole thing involving just this

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    • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lawsuits of “my child died because they copied your TV show” have been going on for decades.

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• dudinax@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Legend is the first suicide hotline was created after a girl killed herself because she had her first period.

  People kill themselves for lots of reasons, but some of those reasons are just ignorance. I feel certain any suicide hotline could have helped her out if she’d called one.

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  • nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This makes sense to me. Suicidal ideation has been one of my PMS symptoms since I first started getting my period, and I’m not actually suicidal.

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    • DillyDaily@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yuuuup, I ended up getting a tattoo on my wrist that is essentially a personal period joke.

      At one stage it was crucial for my survival, it was a kind of grounding token to snap me out of hormonal suicidal insanity when my PMS was at its worst. Something I’d see that would bluntly remind me “it’s not you, it’s your hormones, you don’t actually want this”

      When I say the urge came and went zero to sixty back to zero in 30 seconds flat, sometimes that was an understatement. I really struggled because in addition to suicidal ideation during PMS, I had undiagnosed and untreated ADHD, which often gets worse with PMS thanks to the way oestrogen and progesterone play off each other.

      Guess who’s got major impulsively issues. Guess what two symptoms really shouldn’t be combined.

      I have zero desire to kill myself.

      But my hormones seemed desperate to try and make me do it every month, especially as a teen.

      It didn’t help that I had endometriosis and at 17 developed a uterine prolapse, on top of a rectal prolapse I’d had since I was 12. I was in agony when I was on my period, so sometimes the desire to make the pain stop overlapped with the suicidal ideation. That sucked. Hard to reason your way out of physical pain.

      I’ve had a hysterectomy (from 17-24 my uterus just kept trying to make its own escape anyway despite attempts to sew it in place) and no longer suffer menstrual dysphoria because it turns out that was gender dysphoria not true PMDD. But I still get suicidal ideation as part of PMS, fortunately my ADHD is much better managed so now my tattoo is less a suicide detterant and just a reminder that I still have ovaries (sometimes I genuinely forget, and it takes me a few days to work out why I’m bloated and irritable and why I’m anxious about my sore boobs)

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  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The only things I can quickly find about the first suicide hotline is that it was created because of the high suicide rate in San Francisco.. There might be more to it than that, but it’s what I can find right now.

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    • dudinax@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Varah

      Here’s the story from 1953

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I never would have remembered the old number, I believe they changed it to just 988 now. If making it an easy to access more memorable number and we grind it into everyone’s brains saves 1 extra person, it’s worth it. Hopefully it will save many who would have otherwise not been in the mental mindset to look up the help line

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• quixotic120@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s evidence that trigger warnings actually worsen anxiety and are counterproductive

  The way to treat anxiety is to face the source of anxiety to try and change your relationship and reaction. The best way to do this is via controlled access that exposes one to the trigger gradually in a context that has no risk of harm (eg a media depiction, discussing the concept, building up to discussing the source of trauma that led to the phobic response if applicable)

  Trigger warnings enable active avoidance. This sensitizes one to the aversive stimuli and makes the phobic response stronger. As a result when one encounters the stimulus (eg a friend, family, celebrity etc commits suicide, suffers an eating disorder, etc) your resilience to the trigger is now even lower and the response is more likely to be more significant than it was before.

  That said education on access to resources like 988 or other warm lines can lower suicide rates, maybe. Research is more mixed here because it’s difficult to prove causation

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  • november@lemmy.vg ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s evidence that trigger warnings actually worsen anxiety and are counterproductive

    I’d be interested in seeing these studies.

    The way to treat anxiety is to face the source of anxiety to try and change your relationship and reaction. The best way to do this is via controlled access that exposes one to the trigger gradually in a context that has no risk of harm (eg a media depiction, discussing the concept, building up to discussing the source of trauma that led to the phobic response if applicable)

    Trigger warnings enable active avoidance. This sensitizes one to the aversive stimuli and makes the phobic response stronger. As a result when one encounters the stimulus (eg a friend, family, celebrity etc commits suicide, suffers an eating disorder, etc) your resilience to the trigger is now even lower and the response is more likely to be more significant than it was before.

    These two paragraphs seem to contradict each other. Controlled access in a safe setting like a media depiction sounds great. That’s exactly what trigger warnings are for. They tell you that the content is present in the media you’re about to watch. How can you possibly do controlled exposure without knowing if the content is there or not?

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    • quixotic120@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      journals.sagepub.com/doi/…/2167702620921341 - the bigger takeaway from this one is that trigger warnings reinforce trauma as a central part of the traumatized individuals identity but they did find some incidence of drawback/harm

      journals.sagepub.com/doi/…/21677026231186625 meta finding no benefit and actually can cause an anticipatory reaction making the person more engaged with the material

      There are others, this is just what grabbed from 30 seconds on google scholar. Its been a bit since I’ve done more serious lit review and it’s not like I keep a directory of papers I’ve read

      The issue is the culture surrounding trigger warnings. Let’s be real here, people looking for trigger warnings are generally (perhaps overwhelmingly) not looking for material to help with their exposure therapy. They are looking for a “warning” to help them screen material to avoid. The issue is that this creates an unrealistic expectation that is incompatible with the real world. You can avoid suicide, sexual assault, eating disorders, or whatever in your media (maybe) but real life won’t sanitize itself or warn you. You will encounter these topics, whether through the news, careless speech from friends, or even intrusive thoughts of your own. Research continues to show that avoidance of upsetting topics can worsen anxiety and ptsd symptoms

      To your final point the idea of it helping to create a choice isn’t even as clear cut as you describe

      journals.sagepub.com/doi/…/21677026221097618 content warnings actually increase the likelihood someone will view problematic content. This point is further reinforced by similar findings in the meta linked above

      So you have a system that ultimately makes creators feel like they’re doing something noble, that is likely at best useless and potentially harmful. Said system increases the likelihood that a person will view the problematic content but also enables the reality that a person will simply avoid the things that provoke their anxiety which again is more strongly established as harmful

      www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0005796712001064 - ptsd worsens with avoidance

      www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0962184904000290 - anxiety disorders do the same

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    • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you.

      A big part of why I have severe anxiety to this day is because I was exposed to traumatic things far too young/quickly. I was pushed into situations where I was not ready or emotionally/mentally equipped to handle. Constantly.

      Exposure is only good if a person is ready for it. Desensitization is only helpful when you are equipped to handle such a thing.

      I had an ex who would say that we were doing one thing, then take me to do something completely different, then boast that he was “helping me”, which only heightened my fears in the end. As a foil to that, I had an ex after that who was encouraging and supportive and kind, and gently led me into the same situations, where I knew what I was getting into. Guess how which one had me overcoming my fears?

      Exposure works best if you are prepared for the exposure and have the support you need in those kind of situations.

      I am always thankful for trigger warnings.

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  • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    good points! this is a decent depiction of exposure therapy.

    TW have an odd history. they originally were very useful, because one thing you forgot to mention about exposure therapy is all the work that needs to be done leading up to it. you have to have physical grounding skills in place before exposing someone to adverse stimuli.

    so imagine you have severe PTSD from SA and a college class is gonna show a film that depicts it in an ugly scene. it could fuck up your whole semester to have traumatic stress symptoms come back unexpectedly. I’m talking panic attacks, flashbacks, mood disruption, difficulty controlling violent impulses, difficulty concentrating, difficulty connecting with others… PTSD can be wild.

    so the prof might give a TW on the syllabus, so people just dont come in that day if they don’t wanna see it.

    nowdays TW is just “here’s a thing you dont like!” not “here’s something that could potentially ruin your life again”

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• Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It makes a very positive difference, according to their lawyers.

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• SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, but like airport security, the point is to look like it’s effective.

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• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No idea, but I thought this would be a good time to share that teen suicide attempt rates spiked almost 30% in the month following Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why. It’s a pretty bad show, so of course it got 4 seasons.

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    TBH, I think that’s why shows have this now. Fear of legal liability.

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• mayo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can’t imagine they’d be helpful to me, if anything it makes me feel lesser or condescended to. It’s not the right way to talk about suicide with people who are suicidal.

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  • scbasteve7@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Suicide comes in many different flavors. The most common in my limited experience is desperation. If you are so utterly desperate for literally anyone to listen to you, I don’t see how it would hurt. Especially since there’s such a positive stigma surrounding the hotline. I personally know a couple of people that the hotline helped.

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    • mayo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I like the hotline

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• Hawk@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would like to think that these hotlines are helpful.

  I have experience with somebody calling a sexual abuse hotline and being told to " Work less and go outside tomorrow".

  This was a crisis situation and the advice was woefully inadequate and unhelpful.

  Overall, I’m sure access to a hotline that is monitored with people who are experts at dealing with these situations is a good thing. I doubt they’re funded very well though.

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• OhmsLawn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Optics.

  Sooner or later someone will commit suicide while watching your show, no matter what you do. If that episode happens to contain a suicide scene, and somebody rightly or wrongly connects the dots, you want the disclaimer to be there.

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s it, the next show that I really hate that has a suicide episode is the one where I’m killing myself watching it to get it canceled.

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• ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve lost too many people in my life to suicide, and it’s a really hard topic for me to watch on screen.

  So even though I’ve got not use for a hotline, just knowing that the show will center suicide as a theme is important to me being able to decide if/when to watch it.

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• Lauchs@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wish I could opt out of those messages. On streaming platforms that should be doable! (I really hate spoilers.)

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• benfell@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think, at best, it can only help with certain types of potential suicides. Some suicides occur due to apparently hopeless life situations. For instance, I haven’t been able to get a real job in 23 years despite, in that time, finishing a B.A., an M.A., and a Ph.D. Nothing that everybody says to do works for me and I’m frankly tired of hearing it. I’m stuck DoorDashing (Uber was way too abusive) and that I’m stuck doing that is intensely depressing.

  Psychology can’t help with this. The only thing that can help is a real job. And that’s what a lot of the babble about suicide prevention seems to miss.

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m so sorry to hear it.

    One of the doormen in my building is kind of in a similar situation. He got his doctorate this year, beautiful flute player. Can’t find a job in his field.

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• an_onanist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I predicted in about 10 years disclaimers at the beginning will include, ‘This show depicts murder. Neither the show’s creators producers or actors condone the taking of another human life.’

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  • solrize@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They need “This show depicts stupidity” but they will never have it.

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To my knowledge, there hasn’t been a major peer reviewed study to show whether these warnings make any difference.

  Now, my own anecdotal non-peer reviewed personal opinion would be that they probably make no difference at all. Businesses likely began adding them only to waive potential liability and not to actually do anything helpful. They can be frustrating because they spoil upcoming events in media that may have been unexpected or unknown, but because of the warning are now definitely known and thus feels “ruined” when it happens. They can also reinforce ideation of suicide because a person may feel like the ones that added the warning did it as a token thing, treating the person like they are a badge of honor or some kind of selling point. Whether that is true or not doesn’t really matter, a person that is suicidal is almost never “in their right mind,” and if they feel that way, they feel that way. Nobody can tell them how to feel, not even themselves sometimes.

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• BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Definitely better than the YouTube approach and just make people call it suiclide, so no one really knows that they can kill themselves

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• Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Need to test by providing a tag at the start of these episodes that provides instructions how to kill yourself

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• renrenPDX@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would never call one.

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• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When I was suicidal the thing that helped me most was lostallhope dot com.

  "55% success chance, 15 minutes and 80-something agony for something as drastic as slicing one’s neck? Fucking hell there’s no getting away from it is there. " - 8?I thought.

  Think it got taken down a long time ago, last I checked it didn’t load anyway, prolly cuz of the shady shit happening on SS

  These helplines ain’t shit, I’m not even suicidal and it makes me want to an hero seeing that patronising cringe shit. There better be some solid proof it works on the masses, I can’t imagine how much actual mental health service funding in the UK could’ve been done from the budget of all that social advertising.

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• yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Warnings are great, sometimes I’m not in the right head space to watch those kind of scenes. I usually just don’t watch the episode until I feel it won’t affect me. This is also why doesthedogdie is a very useful resource for me

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• stoly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s really about not being sued by someone’s family for claiming that they got the idea from the show.

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• thethirdobject@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s funny I litterally just finished an episode of Search Engine, the ‘new’ PJ Vogt podcast, where that’s the actual question. It was the May 3rd episode, and they’re interviewing a researcher on the topic, etc.

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• dsilverz@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My comment is meant to bring the perspective of someone who’s facing depression so to try to answer the main question (“a warning with suicide hotline really make positive difference?”) through that perspective. It’s not to seek mental help for myself.

  For context, I’m a person facing depression, and my depression has broad and multifaceted reasons, from unemployment, going through familiar miscommunication (my parents can’t really understand my way of thinking), all the way to my awareness of climate change and transcendental concepts that lead myself to existential crisis. I’m unemployed to seek therapy (it’s a paid thing) and I don’t really have someone face-to-face capable of understand the multitude of concepts and ideas that I face in my mind (even myself can’t understand me sometimes).

  That said, every depressive person has different ways to cope with depression. While some really need someone to talk to (and the talking really helps in those situations), it’s naive to think a conversation will suffice for every single case. I mean, no suicide hotline will make me employed, nor will magically solve the climate changes we’re facing.

  So how I try to deal with my own depression? With two things: occult spirituality (worshiping The Dark Mother Goddess) and writing poetry and prose. I use creative writing to “exhale” (not the exact term I wished to use, there’s a better one but I forgot) my suffering, in order to “cope” with the state of things that I can’t really control (I can’t “employ myself” or “sell my services to myself”, I can’t “befriend myself”, I can’t stop temperatures from rising till scorching temps, nor the other already-ongoing consequences of climate change; I try to make some difference but I’m just a hermit weirdo nerdy nobody among 8 billion people, and I have no choice but to accept it).

  I’m no professional writer (I’m just a software developer), but thanks to The Goddess, I can kinda access my unconscious (dark) mind and let it speak freely (it’s called stream-of-consciousness writing style). Sometimes I even write some funny surrealist prose/story, but sometimes it takes a darker turn, such as dark humor, or nihilistic, or memento mori. Doing this relieves the internal pressure inside my unconscious mind. After writing, I sometimes decide to publish it through fediverse , but when I do it, I constantly feel the need to “self-censor”: sometimes the stream-of-consciousness can lead to texts that people could interpret as some “glorification of suicide/self-harming” (especially when my texts take a nihilistic/memento mori turn), so I often censor myself and change the way I wrote the text. Well, it’s kinda frustrating not being able to fully express it, but I kinda understand how these texts could trigger other people also facing depression.

  The fact is: when I write, it’s really relieving, way more than talking to people because, with poetry/prose writing, I can express symbolic things, I can have multiple layers of depth, I can use creative literary devices such as acrostics and rhymes, I can learn new English words while being a Brazilian, I can blend scientific concepts with esoteric and philosophic (my mind really thinks this way, blending STEM, philosophy and belief/esoteric/occult/religious concepts) without the need to fully explain them (because it’d take several hours and it’d be boring to anybody else other than me).

  So, in summary (TL;DR): it depends on how multifaceted is the depressive situation. It won’t work for me. It surely can work for others that just need to talk to someone. Not exactly my case.

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