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The 13 Reasons Why video

https://youtu.be/Wrp_EfCNdKc

So, I finished it. Kinda nervous about it, have been for a while. Its cause I knew I'd have to talk about my own personal battles with depression and I find that hard to do, especially when it comes to my Youtube channel, the place I come to escape from the real world. Buuut it needed doing cause 13 reasons why really pissed me off, but in a conflicted "maybe there could potentially be some merit in here if I overanalyse it" kinda way.

I didn't put Patreon credits at the end cause it kinda felt inappropriate to do so after the thing I just said towards the end about self harm. I'll do it in the next one.

I am gonna need all the feedback I can get on this one before it goes live (23rd august) cause I really hope I haven't screwed anything up cause depression and suicidal thoughts are fucking sensitive topics. Its why its taken me 2 years to fully form an opinion and write and rewrite the script because of just how close these topics are to me.

Anyway, its not a fun one. Sorry. Hope you...um, enjoy watching it...is that the right word?

Cheers

Stu

Comments

Yeah I have heard about that sort of thing happening and it definitely should be addressed. I think it's the context that makes it particularly egregious here - y'know, Hannah kills herself after this and we know that going into the scene...yeah, minefield

Interesting. I was thinking of writing a story inspired by my time in the first year of university where the mental health services were a bit rubbish. I was feeling aimless and lacking in motivation to do any work and so would ring them up to ask if I could get in touch with a psychologist to help me. The person on the end of the phone would always ask the same two questions: was I planning to self-harm, and was I planning to commit suicide. Thankfully the answers to these questions were always definite nos, but then they'd say they couldn't really help me because my issues weren't severe enough (I found a private psychologist in case you were wondering). I kinda want to write a story in which I would satirise that, and I suppose that's a little different from portraying an authority figure as outright telling someone to 'get over' their mental health issues.

Hmm... difficult question. It was definitely handled incredibly poorly - Hannah is way too honest about what happened, the counsellor would definitely have pointed her to her doctor. If she was vague, evasive and saying "I think I feel this way but I'm not sure how bad it is" then maybe I'd have bought him not seeing the signs. Buuut yeah I think maybe doing this at all is a bad idea, the possibility of dissuading people from coming forward is too great - I think you could only cause harm by doing something like this


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