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00:02 - Looking at the hottest weather now,
00:03 sunny with light winds, Newcastle 24 degrees.
00:06 You're up to date with ABC News.
00:09 - Well, if you've been listening to ABC,
00:13 you'd have to remember a bloke
00:14 by the name of Craig Hamilton.
00:16 He's been touring Australia talking about suicide.
00:19 - The life I lived before 2000
00:24 compared to the life I live now,
00:26 it's like it's two different people.
00:29 I was suicidal.
00:31 - Eight Australians die every day by suicide.
00:37 - There's more conversations and awareness
00:39 and education around mental health and suicide
00:41 than there ever has been.
00:42 Yet we're dying more than ever.
00:44 - Loneliness, social isolation is huge.
00:51 People are craving for connection,
00:53 craving for that, being human.
00:59 - This is what we haven't done.
01:00 We've danced around mental illness and depression,
01:04 but we've never really articulated
01:08 that the worst possible outcome
01:11 is when someone takes their life.
01:12 - He's someone that we probably wouldn't think
01:16 it happened to.
01:17 That's one of the fallacies with it.
01:18 We think these guys are so strong
01:20 and it wouldn't happen to them,
01:22 but that's not the case at all.
01:23 - I think if we all shifted our attitudes
01:27 and we shifted the culture around mental health,
01:29 we could be intervening before it's at that crisis point.
01:33 - When someone asks for help,
01:35 it is the bravest and the hardest thing they will ever do.
01:40 - Sometimes having a conversation,
01:42 being able to speak about it, is all it takes.
01:46 - One conversation can change a life.
01:51 One conversation can save a life.
01:55 - I'm Craig Hamilton, and today I make the promise.
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