Name: 【TED】Jeremy Forbes: How to start a conversation about suicide (How to start a conversation about suicide | Jeremy Forbes)
Uploaded: 2018-06-14T20:57:22.000Z
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in Castlemaine, a small country town in central Victoria.

I'd gone to see Pete, who was renowned for his workmanship with steel.

I'd gone to his shed to get some steel edging for the garden.

This day, with hindsight, which is a wonderful gift,

I was painting a house down the end of Pete's street

Pete, like myself, was a tradie, or a tradesman.

We do like to shorten things in the Australian vernacular.

Pete's funeral was in July. It was winter.

As I wandered around between the tradies and the community members,

I started hearing some tones of another underlying tragic level.

I heard people talking in that community hall

about the struggles other people were going through.

The essence of the conversations was contained in two words

That was the moment where I was standing in a community hall

in a place where this Castlemaine community

this community had backed my work, I'd played footy there,

I was so grateful for what they'd given me.

and I was looking around that hall as well,

who were struggling with alcohol, drugs, finance, gambling,

and that ignorant attitude that we have in the tradie community,

I didn't have the tools. I lacked the experience.

I didn't know what to do, but I wanted to do something.

But I didn't know what to say to them or what to tell them.

I got a phone call two weeks later from Catherine Pilgrim, my cofounder,

let's do something for the tradie community.

There's an ingrained culture of being a tradie.

I thought, where is the perfect place we can get the tradies together

and they can share, they can open up and talk about mental health

Yeah, that's what I thought too. I thought it was very clever.

More precisely, the timber yard of a hardware store.

So there we were. OK, we've got the venue.

I know, we all do, but tradies love food.

Tradies especially, and I'm a tradie myself,

So we thought we'd supply the tradies with egg and bacon rolls,

Keep in mind, "HALT," our charity, had no money to begin,

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【TED】Jeremy Forbes: How to start a conversation about suicide (How to start a conversation about suicide | Jeremy Forbes)

anxiety

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mental

depression