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0 pointskamjam13y ago0 comments

Thank you, not sure I could have phrased it any better. I'm not sure many of us will ever fully understand what Aaron went through, something obviously dark enough that he felt the only way out was to take his own life. If some of the condolences and sympathy on offer right now had been given back then maybe a brilliant mind would still be alive. Hopefully all of us will think twice before dismissing calls of help with "man up" from now now.

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lancewiggs13y ago

Given Matt's from New Zealand, he would have been exposed to an excellent series of advertisements on depression by a former top All Black - John Kirwan. Kirwan, who was arguably the best All Black of his era, talks frankly about depression, mentions in one that toughening up is the last thing to do, and that the best way to help is to seek help, do the little things that make you happy and so on. It was a brave thing to do, and incredibly powerful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ9yRhCiLfA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxBikj3kRco http://depression.org.nz/

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