Mom tells why your teen should not watch ’13 Reasons Why’

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 23 May 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Florida mother who believes “13 Reasons Why” contributed to her son’s suicidal thoughts tells Nancy Grace what happened to her 15-year-old after a teacher suggested students watch the Netflix series. Psychologist Caryn Stark, who criticizes the show for glorifying suicide, gives the mom and all parents advice on how to deal with children who might want to end their own lives.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Hannah.
0:06.8	The Netflix show 13 Reasons Why has been criticized for glorifying suicide, because I'm about
0:12.5	to tell you the story of my life, more specifically why my life ended.
0:16.6	The fictional series features a high school girl who sends tapes to students and a teacher,
0:21.9	explaining how they wronged her.
0:23.4	If you're listening to this tape, you're one of the reasons why.
0:25.5	It's everyone is just so nice until they drive you to kill yourself.
0:29.3	This is crime stories with Nancy Grace.
0:32.0	A mother says a teacher gave her 15 year old son the idea to watch a Netflix series.
0:36.8	She feels contributed to some of his mental health issues.
0:39.8	One of the teachers was discussing the series in class and basically said, you know, I think
0:45.2	it's a pretty good show you guys should check it out.
0:47.2	Days later, her son was committed for psychiatric evaluation.
0:51.1	He was creating a 13 reasons why list.
0:53.4	Told us he was having thoughts of suicide that he didn't want to live.
0:58.2	The controversial new Netflix show 13 Reasons Why.
1:05.0	It sounds innocent, innocuous enough, doesn't it?
1:08.2	13 Reasons Why?
1:09.4	Why what?
1:10.4	Why I don't want to live.
1:13.4	That's the rest of that sentence.
1:15.6	13 Reasons Why I Want to commit suicide.
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