Psychologists: Memorials can trigger more suicides – CNN.com.

Love it when I have to make a correction, albeit a slight one.

In the previous post, I talked about the disproportional ratio of phsyical health news to mental health news.  I still stand by that statement, but I had to chuckle when I completed that post, clicked on the link to CNN that I had posted, and was faced by a headline story on college suicides.

This is an interesting point – read the story for the details, I’m not out to rewrite what’s already been written quite well.

Rather, to reinforce this notion, I’ve been hearing one of our psychologists opine in step with this very notion.  Too much attention focused upon tragedy spawns copy cats.  Specifically, she typically makes this point in regards to over-emphasizing violent crimes.  It’s clear from this article that this phenomenon has farther reaching implications.

The bottom line is that  for people who are on the edge, it doesn’t take much to tip the scale.

There’s a fine line here, and limiting the focus on these tragedies is easier in theory than in practice.  Let’s face it, we pretty much all stop and stare at the train wreck.

No answers here, just more questions.

I’ll shoot for a post tomorrow that isn’t so open-ended …