Why Are We Writing More About a Suicide Than Ferguson Riots?

Why have psychologists said much more about one celebrity suicide than about a teenager’s tragic death and the ensuing protests and riots? We knew Robin Williams in ways we never knew Michael Brown. Is our relatively greater response because of familiarity, race, complacency, information overload, or specificity of issues like suicide, depression, and Parkinson’s disease?

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