I Jumped Off The Golden Gate Bridge & Lived with Kevin Hines
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Trigger warning: Mention of Suicide, Suicidal Ideation, Suicide Attempt On September 25, 2000, 19-year-old @KevinHines approached the Golden Gate Bridge and was determined to end his own life. According to CNN, San Francisco's iconic bridge is the number one suicide spot in the United States and the second most used spot in the world. The bridge has a 98% fatality rate, but Hines survived. Kevin sits down with Dr. Daniel Amen to discuss his journey through his suicide attempt and prior Bipolar Disorder diagnosis - and receives his brain scan results and recommended treatment. Want to schedule a visit? Our highly trained specialists can guide you through the process so you and your loved ones can get the help you deserve. https://www.amenclinics.com/schedule-...
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| 0:00.0 | Every day you are making your brain better or you are making it worse. |
| 0:07.0 | Stay with us to learn how you can change your brain for the better every day. |
| 0:13.0 | To start, give me like five minutes of summary of your journey. |
| 0:21.6 | Sure. |
| 0:22.6 | Born in abject poverty, to birth parents who after they had me on drugs and alcohol, they were on drugs and alcohol. |
| 0:31.6 | Taken away from our birth parents by foster, by the foster care system, placed in his separate homes. |
| 0:39.3 | My birth brother and I were initially together. He died right near me. |
| 0:44.3 | How old were you when you were taken? |
| 0:46.3 | He was 10 months older than me, so I was just a few months old. |
| 0:51.3 | I was taken in by the Heinz family at nine months of age after my brother died. |
| 0:57.0 | And things seemed to be going well. |
| 1:02.0 | I started to acclimate to the Heinz home. |
| 1:05.0 | Initially, I was a very sick child because of abandonment issues and a detachment disorder from reality that it occurred |
| 1:11.7 | after my brother died after being taken away from our birth parents. |
| 1:18.0 | Grew up in a very stable home, loving family, a beautiful life. At 17, it all came crashing |
| 1:25.6 | down and I always say my brain broke. |
| 1:29.2 | I had a complete mental breakdown on stage in front of 1,200 people. |
| 1:33.6 | I was a theater kid playing one of the leads in the show on opening night. |
| 1:38.1 | I believed that 1,200 people were going to simultaneously rise, rush the stage, and end my life. |
| 1:43.0 | So I ran off stage in the middle of the play. |
| 1:45.0 | The theater director had to resume my position to finish the show. |
| 1:51.0 | I was very soon thereafter diagnosed with bipolar type 1 with psychotic features, which I haphazardly battled, |
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