This is sooooo amazing. I have a program where I ship small packages with art supplies to chronically ill people and the feeling of receiving something in the mail is exactly that. That someone cares. Isolation is soooo deeply sad.

@mlfeathers7527

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed!!!

Hi Everyone, thanks for watching and thank you for the kind words. You can find out more about my story over at the channel - kzread.info #beheretomorrow

@reginalechleitner6685

4 жыл бұрын

I have repeatedly told your story to many people, and am proud of you for touring and helping others. I never had seen your face, so glad you are around. Keep up the good work. We need to go on moving forward and taking care of our health and taking the time to solve temporary problems in healthy ways. 😘

@401DONOR

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your story…just lost my dear friend Gabi last Sunday…may she has found her inner peace and comfort…Gabi sweetie, will miss you dearly 😢❤😢

Thanks CBS for share this video. I just lost my high school friend due to suicide, he was found hanging in his office 2 days ago. We need to help others because maybe our friends are desperate for it and need it.

@joellebrinkley1521

4 жыл бұрын

So sorry for your loss!

Thank you thank you thank you for featuring Kevin!!!

Really eye opening report and hopefully the message gets across to mental health professionals and family and friends of those in need.

@MISNM0

10 ай бұрын

🫂🌅

Loneliness is killing us! This program was aired 2 years ago and now here we are post pandemic where loneliness is so much more prevalent. The suicide rate among teenagers has gone up exponentially. I once came very close to checking out. I would love to be writing some of those letters because depression is all encompassing. Mentally, emotionally, spiritually, so much more than chemical imbalances in your brain

The story didn’t say where you could send letters! I would love to help.

@joellebrinkley1521

4 жыл бұрын

Google nonprofits that do letter writing to different audiences like military, senior citizens, etc.

@elizabethmoore9286

4 жыл бұрын

Sending mail to nursing homes can make a huge difference in the lives of the lonely.

I hope your show would feature more stories on mental health issues. Many of us would like to help those who suffer from it.

@MISNM0

10 ай бұрын

Hello, New Friend. 🫂💛

Here we go, this was the one i was looking for

In a word: "Love one another"

A voice can help. It has to be the right voice, one that can reach into the darkness.

Thank you for posting this.I hope it is used, shared and becomes a standard for hospitals, centers, out patient clinics, therapists, psychiatrists, VA veteran services, youth programs and non profits. It appears to be evidence based. So many have no family, don't hear positive things and do not belong to a peer support group. They isolate and ruminate and live with pain. So glad to hear of this today. So grateful this man cared enough to research it. Amazing

So can see the pain in his eyes it’s so heartbreaking 🥀

@MISNM0

10 ай бұрын

Hope

This isn't just about someone in mental health crisis. Caring and respect cures more than penicillin ever has but sadly many practitioners seem to think they are either too important, too busy to lower themselves to caring for mere patients...

It's so sad when my daughters ask me how I'm doing and I said I'm feeling sad or depressed. They automatically change the subject, but if I say my back hurts all of the sudden they are preoccupied and tell me is there anything I can do? Or mom, please go to the Drs. I have cried and cried because of their lack of empathy for my mental condition.

A kind letter is nice and all, however, there are not enough doctors and mental health facilities to help 1.5 million people over a one year period. The US, once again, has ignored the desperate need for everyone to have access to quality health care. Just think about how productive our country would be if these people were cares for properly. They would have the chance to be better parents, employees, and community members.

I remember reading about Kevin Hines experience in the newspaper. His words about what he went through are amazing. I couldn't forget it and have shared them with many people over the years. I reach out to people too and it means so much. Do it! A quote I repeat is " suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem " think about it. Solve the problem another way. Take care of yourself!

Wow. I haven't sent a letter or card in maybe 20 years. That'll change after watching this show. Powerful.

My faith in God brought me through🙏🏼

@davettaoldcrow4865

4 жыл бұрын

Amen amen

I watched this last, of all the videos from this weekend, because I knew it would weigh heavily on my heart. Just seeing him with those red rimmed eyes just makes me realize he's not quite over the self-pity. I wonder what he would have considered as an "ounce of care" from perfect strangers passing him by on the bridge.

@dutchgala826

4 жыл бұрын

a smile or a hello. such strangers do not judge. Showing me that i exist if only for a moment that someone cares about me.

@joellebrinkley1521

4 жыл бұрын

If someone would have stopped to even asked about the weather. Something other than asking to help take a picture!

@leahlune

4 жыл бұрын

He had and still has a severe mental disease-bipolar with psychotic features, including auditory hallucinations. If you watch one or 2 of his videos where he tells his story, I think you’ll find that he doesn’t have any self pity. He doesn’t blame anyone else for what he did-he’s saying that if you see someone who you think looks like they’re struggling, ask them if they’re ok-bc it can save someone’s life.

@zyxwut321

Жыл бұрын

Sigh, another complete misunderstanding of mental illness.

This story as a mother of a teen grips my heart. It’s a horrible lump of despair in my throat that makes my eyes leak a River.

@coloradocricket2370

Жыл бұрын

Further. Reaching affordable care is not easy for people financially burdened. Thus this horrible reality of homeless and self medicating on illicit drug use. People are on islands with no life raft. Judged, criminalized and dismissed. This is the condition that will expedite the end to human existence.

Just live one day at a time...find happiness in the simple pleasures. If your family isn't responding, then seek others who will enjoy your company. We know social media doesn't help, so disengage from the phony world...

@LM01234

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@Clintsessentials

4 жыл бұрын

@first last haha, riiiight???

It's not the be-all-end-all, but this stuff does matter. Btw, a lot of therapists are cold fish.

I love this

Seriously - I'm a living witness that when others DO NOT CARE for me somehow/someway it makes me not care for myself. It is a true fight on my part to hold on. The "ONLY" reason I continue to hold on is because I stay in the Word. I Know my Redeemer lives and that He loves me unconditionally. God truly IS GOOD.... ALL THE TIME.

Social Media is causing the uptick

If you want the Caring Card featured in the video, you can find it on our website: nowmattersnow.org ("Free Training and Resources" tab)

I am an avid #MentalHealthAwareness advocate and spoken word performer, and I love this so much. I travel the country trying to bring that awareness on stages, in classrooms, hospitals, and on my KZread channel, so I get excited when I see other advocates. 💙❤

The most poignant moment in therapy was receiving a condolence letter from my analyst. It showed he cared.

Yeah I totally agree with this complete strangers just to caring about another human being stopping from hurting myself quite a few times

Ursula is a beautiful spirit 😍 I would love to write letters to someone!

Really? What about an entire family saying they care? We're here. We want to help. It the illness. Take the help to understand the illness and how to manage it. We see your pain. We don't want you isolated or running with people who are condoning your negative thoughts. Your sons need you and love you. For 10 years this was said over and over again. Did not stop my son from putting a belt around his neck.

@hollyavillella554

4 жыл бұрын

That's a heavy burden. "When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another." Helen Keller You did the best you could. Prayers for all your family and others dealing with very difficult mental health challenges.

@suzannereiser4720

4 жыл бұрын

Fourthgirl Yeah it reminds me of what a family friend said to us when seeing my sister at the end stage of her 10 years of drug and alcohol abuse - “Isn’t there anything you can do to help?” Like we had just been hanging around not even noticing how sick she was - it still really really pisses me off. The guilt a family feels when they die is bad enough without all the useless pontifications.

WOW!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU ♥️♥️♥️!! I'm gping to see what I can do too!!

Everyone before I sui: “ugh he needs to shut up about his problems, I’m not his therapist” Everyone after I sui: “why didn’t he say something? I would have been there for him”

We have forgotten how to be kind and with kindness love follows. America has grown out of touch, bitter and mean, and the world we now know has become poorer for it.😪

I can Relate to Kevin Hines.

Here in America: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. If an American citizen does not have the legal 'Liberty' to end their own 'Life' if they and they alone believe it would make them 'Happy' to do so, then are they truly 'Free'?

I care.

Guess who REALLY doesn't care.....The Universe.