Is someone you love suffering in silence? Here's what to do | Gus Worland
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4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Lots of people talk about the need to be physically fit, but mentally fit? Not as much. In a powerful talk, mental health advocate Gus Worland shares how an experience of deep grief from his own life sparked his mission to advocate for suicide prevention -- and shows why "looking after your own village" can be as simple as sending a text message, right now, to the person you cannot imagine living without.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective |
| 0:16.0 | Hi there, it's Ted Hell and I'm your host, Dr. Shoshana Ungerlater. |
| 0:20.0 | What if every one of us has a trusty confidant? |
| 0:25.0 | Someone who truly listens and stands by our side for life. |
| 0:30.0 | Media figure Gus Warland in his emotionally charged Ted 2023 talk |
| 0:35.0 | reveals the bleak truths of suicide by sharing his own personal journey of loss and resilience. |
| 0:43.0 | Gus invites us on a collective mission towards enhanced mental well-being |
| 0:48.0 | and suicide prevention, beginning with forming our own enduring gotcha for life bonds. |
| 0:55.0 | In his inspiring talk, Gus compels us to envision a world where loneliness is a myth |
| 1:01.0 | and the task of preventing suicide is a collective commitment. |
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| 1:42.0 | I want to talk about my mentor. |
| 1:46.0 | I want to talk about the day that I got a phone call saying that he had died |
| 1:52.0 | and I want to talk about the moments later in the same phone call |
| 1:56.0 | that I'd heard that he'd actually taken his own life. |
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