When we're not on the piss—drinking large amounts of alcohol—we're smoking, we're snorting, and we're injecting.

This is the behaviour of a society that does not know how to process emotion, trauma, and pain.

I believe that these forces, combined with the ones that the experts recognize, create this pressure where two devastating things happen.

One is that you become superficial and isolated because you're unable to express emotion, unable to connect well with people.

You end up becoming incredibly lonely, and you’ll find that loneliness and suicide go together like hand in glove.

On top of this loneliness, of course, comes a lack of self-confidence.

We’re too scared to express ourselves honestly, to live by our values, and to have integrity.

We’ve all got to try and fit in with this easygoing tall poppy syndrome bullshit that’s rife throughout New Zealand.

This creates incredibly low self-worth, with people pretending to be confident.

So there you are: you've now got low self-confidence, you're isolated because you can’t express emotion and connect with anyone, and then you feel like killing yourself.

Who are you going to talk to about it? Nobody.

And that’s why many people follow through.

If you do feel like killing yourself, please do me a favour: Take an extra day and get in touch with me first, or call the suicide hotline.

If you've already decided on suicide, what's one more day? Reach out to someone, because maybe this doesn’t have to go through. Maybe there’s an option where there is a brighter future, and you just can't see it right now.

To dive deeper into this topic, check out the original video here:

https://youtu.be/s_SuOcstzF0

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