YouTube Clip of the Week: “Suicide Affects Everyone”
Yes, it seems to be suicide week here on Depression Talk but if you’ve skipped over the other posts about suicide thinking that they’d be too depressing, please try not to skip this. It’s a little public service announcement video put together by Denver Film and Digital. It shows people from NFL stars to high school students get suicidal thoughts.
Hey — I have yet to meet one person who honestly never had a suicidal thought (not even for one second). We all have these thoughts. When you have any type of depression or chronic illness like migraines, you tend to dwell on these thoughts rather than try to get any help with either your mental, emotional or physical pain.
Warning: Snark Ahead
If it’s a little too touchy-feely for you, then just take a gander at the really sensitive and encouraging comments just below the video at YouTube itself. Wow. My favorite is from “herorev” who wrote:
“It doesn’t take courage to recklessly go along with the crowd and denounce suicide.”
I guess we know who’s going to be up for a Nobel Prize in Medicine next year, don’t we? I’m hoping that insightful comment on the human psyche was meant to be sarcastic. I’m as big a fan of sacrasm as you’ll ever find, but I tend to prefer an audience who isn’t going to die on me anytime soon, because I still need them to dig my sarcasm. Dude, dudette or whatever you are, “herorev” — first rule of brainwashing — don’t immediately get your followers to drink the Kool Aid during the first revival meeting.
January 10th, 2009 at 6:20 am
I too would like to talk about HeroreV. I attended UNT with the boy you know as HeroreV, but I knew as Justin. His name was James Justin Harrell. Justin was not joking when he wrote those words about suicide. He always thought that suicide was one of the most beautiful things in the world. I considered him a good friend, but we had very big disagreements about this. Justin had a very warped view on society (although many people would surely criticize me for saying his view was warped, and Justin would certainly not talk to me for days), which is one of the reasons I stopped talking to him. On July 24th, James Justin Harrell managed to kill himself. The medical examiner says it was an accident, I and others say it wasn’t. To some, suicide may be beautiful and a great way to deal with the problems in life, but I want to testify that as happy I am that he’s probably proud of his decision, I feel terribly hurt by it and so do his parents. Suicide really does affect everyone. HeroreV may have been a terrible person, but James Justin Harrell was not. Please try to remember that. Rest in peace, my friend.
April 4th, 2009 at 11:38 am
This information is brilliant. Thank you ever so much.