Mental health advocate urges responsible suicide reporting

Mental health advocate urges responsible suicide reporting

MEDIA professionals play a crucial role in preventing suicide contagion and must report such cases responsibly, said Julie May Maisog Robles, head nurse at the House of Hope Foundation Inc., a custodial psychiatric facility managed by the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro.“There is what we call copycat suicides, where people who are already vulnerable to suicide attempts tend to copy what they read, hear, or see in the media, even on social media,” …