Is someone you love suffering in silence? Here's what to do | Gus Worland

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🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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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
0:10.8	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks daily and you're about to hear a story
0:15.0	of deep grief and vulnerability, one that wound up bringing people together in Australia
0:20.8	and now around the world.
0:23.0	In his talk from the Ted 2023 stage, Mental Fitness Advocate Gus Warland offers ways
0:28.3	we can all do our part to bring suicide deaths to zero.
0:35.0	I want to talk about my mentor.
0:38.8	I want to talk about the day that I got a phone call saying that he had died.
0:45.0	And I want to talk about the moments later in the same phone call that I've heard that
0:49.3	he'd actually taken his own life.
0:52.3	And I'm saying this because I want you to listen and also think about all the people
0:56.6	that you love and adore and you cannot imagine living without in your life as you're listening
1:01.3	to me talk.
1:03.8	My friend, my mentor, my father figure, Angus, I truly loved him.
1:09.6	My father left the family home when I was quite young and he took on the mantle to look
1:14.8	after me.
1:15.8	I'd known him for a very young age.
1:17.8	He taught me how to swim.
1:20.0	He was my cousin's boyfriend, then my cousin's husband.
1:23.5	And he was just my go-to guy when I was starting to date girls and I wasn't sure what to do.
1:28.5	I'd ring him up and I'd ask him, hey, what do you think?
1:31.0	What's going on?
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