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Dr. Mark Sinyor: And there is
now a lot of emerging research

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which shows that when you show
people, other people's stories

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of survival, stories of people
who are in really, really bad

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shape is sometimes think of it
like as a rags to riches story.

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If you're thinking of the
narrative of what you're talking

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about something really bad has
happened or riches to rags to

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riches. Something really, really
bad is happening to a person,

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they're in a really, really
tough spot. And they think it

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looks like maybe they're going
to attempt suicide them thinking

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about it, and then they don't
they go to the hospital or they

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they speak to a friend or a
relative and they have a

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positive and unexpected positive
outcome and they survive. We

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know that disseminating stories
like that, stories of hope, can

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can have the opposite effect and
can actually be associated with

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a reduction in in suicides
across the population.