[Sebb767]

And that would be absolutely true as well. If colleges were/are so horrible that 1% of people contemplate suicide, it is quite obvious that something needs to change.

[yunohn]

I’m quite sure that this is already the case, and the numbers are higher than 1%. Modern society has a lot of pitfalls which we are blaming on FB/Insta instead.

[nielsbot]

These are additional suicides attributed to FB/Insta, right? We can and should blame FB/Insta for those.

[yunohn]

The feelings are invoked by the other humans posting content on FB/Insta. Again, this is a societal ill, and nobody wants to acknowledge it.

A similar example is when newspapers report on a high-profile suicide, and you have multiple copycat suicides occur afterwards. You wanna ban news reporting too?

[rodonn]

When Berkeley surveyed their graduate students, 47% were depressed and 10% had considered suicide... https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/04/22/berkeley-stud...

Now I agree with your conclusion that "it is quite obvious that something needs to change" with our graduate education system.