A team of researchers from Glasgow University have found that Goths are more likely to self harm or commit suicide than other youth groups. They described Goth as a dark and sinister subgenre of Punk and studied over 1,200 people and though other groups were seen to self harm, it was the Goths that were found to be most likely to do it.
Head of the research team Robert Young said that it didn’t show being Goth causes this instability, in fact he found it to be the reverse, that being unstable causes one to become a Goth, due to the finding that more self harm happened before, not after, becoming a Goth.
Still, if they must insist on listening to The Murderdolls…