Suic!de and Ment@l He@lth | Philosophy Tube ★

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  @PhilosophyTube · 8 years ago (edited) · pinned

  UK &amp; ROI, the Samaritans - 116123<br>USA, National Suic!de Hotline - 1-800-784-2433<br>USA, The Trevor Project - 1-866-488-7386<br>USA, Trans Lifeline - 1-877-565-8860<br><br>First thing&apos;s first, please don&apos;t worry: I know this video gets dark and personal but I’m safe, I’m okay; remember this was filmed weeks ago and isn’t necessarily an accurate representation of how I feel this afternoon! Now, anticipating an objection:<br><br>&quot;Why make this video in this way? Aren&apos;t you commodifying your feelings?&quot;<br><br>Well, there&apos;s a reason I put &quot;Blackstar&quot; in the thumbnail and the recommended reading: Bowie wrote that album when he knew he was dying and when it came out I saw someone say he was the only artist in the world who could look at his own death and go, “I can use this.” Making this video has been Hellish but I wanted to take these feelings and put them to work creating something nobody has made before: a YouTube video about suicide that&apos;s educational AND critical AND personal AND artistic. That just seems more worthwhile to me than sitting on these feelings, or making a video about this subject that&apos;s any less than the best I can possibly make it. <br><br>Olly XXx<br><br>★

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  @marialuke2116 · 7 years ago (edited)

  <i>&quot;Sigmund Freud thought, wrongly&quot;</i><br>Oh, so the usual then.

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  @fordmadoxfraud · 6 years ago

  I’d been avoiding “The Cosmonaut video” since I started watching this channel. I’m a cosmonaut too, and I don’t like to focus too much on my frequent flyer status. Tonight an old friend killed himself. After reading the note he left behind, I went home, made leftovers for dinner, did the dishes, put my child to bed, and watched. It helped. Thank you.

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  @nathanlindgren6019 · 4 years ago

  When she said, “Toxic Masculinity is a hell of a ship to pilot when you’re suffering,” I felt that to my core.

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  @Rogue_Leader · 4 years ago (edited)

  In 2001, one of my closest friends committed suicide on her 27th birthday, two days before my 28th. She was saner than I. She lived very relentlessly in the real world. <br><br>The last time I saw her, she was trying to tell me that it was the last time. I didn’t pick up what she was saying. <br><br>I was in a hurry. <br><br>I didn’t listen. <br><br>21 years.<br><br>That year, three close friends followed.

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  @angelinakodjabashia7416 · 7 years ago

  “Or when you love someone and they hurt you” that line hurts like hell to listen to now.

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  @yongyong5296 · 7 years ago

  The urge of reaching across the screen and hug him is too strong

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  @lonelylucifer5301 · 7 years ago

  There&apos;s a difference between wanting to die and not wanting to live.

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  @ADreamerWithAPen · 5 years ago

  &quot;Sigmund Freud thought, wrongly&quot; is a good summary of all of his work tbh

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  @angel-gu8co · 7 years ago

  when i went to the hospital for suicidal ideation, they just put me in a literal cell, and had me sit there uncomfortable in a hospital gown for three hours and then told me to buy some melatonin for my sleep problems and had me leave. needless to say i&apos;m cured

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  @rhymeswithpicard8202 · 6 years ago

  As someone who used to self harm, I have never laughed harder about self harm than when you showed the fork and spoon.

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  @allylavender3023 · 7 years ago

  I might just be screaming into the void here, I just want you to know that this video helped keep me alive tonight. So thank you. Thank you for convincing me that my spacecraft will land, and that I’ll see the earth again one day.

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