
Kurt Cobain and “Copycat Suicide”
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The Upstream Metaphor for Suicide Crisis
I think the reason behind that is because there's just like this sort of new awareness that a suicide crisis is often a very short lived thing. And if someone can get through that immediate crisis, they're usually okay, at least for now. So I think people are just more aware of how immediate and urgent that can be. Because there is a life at stake in a very immediate way. But it's actually interesting. I went to this one lecture with a woman who was talking about addressing suicide from a public health crisis. It's called the upstream metaphor. The whole thing is like, okay, you're hanging out by a river and you see someone floating downstream screaming for help. You
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