Understand suicide through people who have lived through it
Short Documentary
24
min
Suicide is a highly stigmatised topic and many of us struggle to even use the word. However, suicide and suicidal thoughts affect many of us, directly or indirectly. Let's talk about it and learn from those who have lived through it.
Featured Lived Experiences
Learn more about
Suicide
Relevant Articles
Relevant Lived Experiences
Suicide
Innvandrerhelse og utenforskap
Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. dklv wd
00:35:45
00:35:45
Lived Experiences on
Suicide
Suicide is a highly stigmatised topic and many of us struggle to even use the word. However, suicide and suicidal thoughts affect many of us, directly or indirectly. Let's talk about it and learn from those who have lived through it.
Short Documentary
24
min
Understand suicide through people who have lived through it
We all face emotions and situations where we just want to escape and not feel. At least for a while, we can recharge before we return to our lives and try to cope. This is where addiction can get a hold of us, and for many it creeps up on us. Learn from people that have broken out of different types of addiction, and hear insights from Consultant Clinical Psychologist Anne Crawford-Docherty. Together they take you through the different aspects of addiction, sharing experiences from their own lives when their addiction controlled them. Hear why many of us use different substances to escape our emotions or challenges in life through their real experiences. See what moments made them re-evaluate if the positives of their escape outweighed the costs of their addiction. Anne shares the model called “the stages of change”, and the different people share how they managed to break out of their addiction, to create the new lives they wanted. Hear what they learned from the whole process and what they wish they knew when they still felt the need to escape life. This is a good introduction that can help you take steps to overcome your addiction or how to support another person on their recovery journey.
Directed by
Jimmy Westerheim, Sunniva Lyle Sturzrehm
Edited by
Sunniva Lyle Sturzrehm
Directors of Photography by
Quang Nguyen, Lucas Harboe, Morten Malerstuen, Moyo Joseph Zozimo
Colour & Sound Mix by
Aksel Skorm Mena Refsdal