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Hi
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Hi
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I was bullied in early middle school.
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My tormentor was calling, so he called her back
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and he said, "stop spreading slanderous filth about my sister!"
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And I just thought, he's so cool. No nobody's going to mess with me as long as I've got him in my corner.
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And he was in my corner, always.
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[Dad asking] Who's going to carry you?
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No one.
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You're gonna go by yourself?
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No, I'm coming with her.
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Kaitlyn, look at me.
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Now, turn the page.
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Jonathan had his own struggles and a lot of it was self esteem
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He was constantly having to be helped at school
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Those all fed into things that had him turn to medicating himself
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with alcohol and cocaine and -
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We talked to everybody. Just everybody didn't see that coming.
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Not just, what did we miss. What did we all miss?
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Mark told me that from the get go, from the first time we met
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he really felt that this was going to be something
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I was far more cautious and reticent. I hadn't been involved in a long term relationship before.
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We enjoyed nature so much. Every weekend we went out to discovery park.
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We could see the change of seasons and see the subtle changes of the leaves and the flowers and the seeds.
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Rain or shine, we made that quick walk.
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Mark developed huge anxiety as a result of what was happening at his business
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and had to go to the emergency room.
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Twice we called an ambulance and it never occurred to me that suicide was in the offing.
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The people at the emergency room did not talk with me about any possibility of anxiety leading to suicide.
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I would thank Mark for the 27 years of happiness we had together.
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I would tell him that I love him deeply and I miss him horribly.
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She was a very successful child.
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She was good at everything she tried.
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Before she could write, she would have little notebooks full of scribbles.
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And she would sit there with facial expressions
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and write and we would go, what is she writing?
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and we'd look and it would be pages and pages of scribbles and storytelling that was somewhere in her head.
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Life got harder for Brooke.
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The things that she used to conquer easily were more challenging.
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Like, the progression in three years of what I would identify now as depression
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but didn't see it that way then
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One night, I came home from wherever I was
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and she showed me she had cuts on her wrist
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and I asked her if she was trying to kill herself and she said
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I was, I wanted to, and then I changed my mind.
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And I said, thank God you changed your mind.
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I wish I had asked sooner, because I feel like I got lucky.
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I still have times where I'm sad, just like everyone
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but I can handle it now
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I've learned ways to deal with it so when it comes up it's not scary.
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It's not a happy subject of course but it's really important to talk about it.
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It's tragic, and places like Forefront recognize that
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and know that there are ways we can treat it
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or at least try and stop it
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those telltale signs of things that we don't necessarily know are out there
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We should learn them before it happens to somebody else.
Claude Almansi
Hi acnar
Apologies for the 3rd "revision" of your subtitles: I needed to change the title and description of the page to the one that appears on YouTube, but I have not changed your work.
Best,
Claude