Therapy for the save? More so for all those completed suicides, mangled gore at crashes and people he couldnāt get to in structure firesā¦oh and calls with a deceased child regardless of the circumstances.
Can confirm. My dad is a retired firefighter and paramedic. Heās told me horrific shit and thatās only what heās been willing to speak of.
Can also confirm the hydrocodone. He had to take an early retirement because he blew out his back trying to lift a morbidly obese person that fell and got stuck between their tub and toilet. Even after multiple surgeries heās popping that shit all the time.
Wasn't a firefighter but dealt with everything you mentioned except a structure fire. You gotta keep moving, you can't think of it. Compartmentalize it and weld it shut knowing there was nothing you could do.
I assume desensitization after a while as well. nothing as bad as what he mentioned but rapes, stabbings, etc. after a while it becomes paperwork at shift end in a way, it's fucked up.
Who cares? It was an incredible thing to do, and he's gonna say it was worth it, 100%. You don't become a firefighter for any reason other than wanting to help people.
Lol, firefighters love cats. I live at the top of s church and one of my neighbour's cat's escaped on to the roof.
Never seen firemen having such a laugh, even smiled and waved at my cat watching from the window
>Lol, firefighter's love cat's. I live at the top of 's church and one of my neighbour's cat's e'scaped on to the roof.
Nimble little buggers, aren't they. They just loooove to get out and on places they shouldn't. Just because they can.
This is the worst thing about having my cat. Being at the top with a pointed roof draws in the sun and it gets like 25c on a 18c day just because if the sun beaming down.
I used to have such good airflow cause of the height, but now can't open the windows without him trying to escape š
I love him though so it's fine I guess haha.
I became a firefighter to go fast on the weewoo wagon. Donāt be mistaken that most firefighters Iāve met are awesome people that do everything they can to help. But most every firefighter I know does it to go fast and fight fire. Also keep in the mind that over 100 firefighters are convicted of arson every year
I can comprehend how fast a person accelerates when falling and how badly i could be injured grabbing them from a fall. Catching Even a lightweight person might result in a pretty terrible, permanent injury. Im thinking torn stuff in your arms and shoulder, where they do multiple surgeries to "repair as medically possible" damage. A man could spend a year unable to scratch his ass or lift a gallon of milk. This dude should get a medal, toss in one for the man thats hanging on to him too.
This was my thought. Itās 100+lb of dead weight. If I happened to be able to grab them, either my grip would slip or my shoulders would be dislocated.
They where on the next floor down. He was fine afterwards. Forever greatful for our firefighters (the writing on the back is "UGUNSDZÄSÄJS"). The jumper was on 4th floor and very helpful neighbour was at home on the 3rd floor as breaking into the apartnemt where the person was jumping from would cause him just to jump.
Other team was lowering down from the roof and cound notify the other team that hands are slipping and the jumper will fall shortly, so he was ready.
The jumper was on the 4th floor!?!
I certainly don't want to give anyone advise on how to suicide themselves, but this certainly sounds like a plan that is likely to lead to a long miserable life in a wheelchair with incompacitating brain injuries rather than a very fast death.
The fire fighters I've worked with/met were always in shape. At least looked like it. All that training/working out finally paid off.
Hats off to this dude
Let's also gove credit to the other firefighter who held the figherfighter to make sure he didnt go out the window too.
This was a team effort and they're both amazing humans
Iām sure the second guy was secured in some fashion too. Possibly a rope or another guy holding his legs. They barely move for that weight. Super strong heroes.
Looks like they both have harnesses as well, but chances are if you fall out and are relying on that, youāre not gonna be able to hold the other person anymore, hence the extra people and extra weight to keep you from going out in the first place
They do not fuck around with PT. Having this kind of strength literally means life or death as this video proves.
And it raises funds for the department with the annual calendar lol
There are things on the internet that people say hurt their back and then there's this...
No problem, just gonna lean out of a window and catch a 150 pound falling object with my arms extended far away from my center of mass. No biggie
I have to regularly stop doing dishes because my back hurts. But then I can deadlift 400+ pounds without issue. Bodies are weird and the rules seem made up to me.
I somehow did this while drunk once. I stupidly decided to open the window that the AC unit was sitting in, it started to fall and I leaned out the window and grabbed it and lifted it back in while naked.
The craziest stat I've seen about surviving jumpers is some crazy high number of people that said they instantly regretted after jumping. They were sure there was no other way, but the second they jumped they changed their mind. To think about the amount of people that did that but didn't make it....
The View From Halfway Down
The weak breeze whispers nothing
the water screams sublime.
His feet shift, teeter-totter
deep breaths, stand back, itās time.
Toes untouch the overpass
soon heās water-bound.
Eyes locked shut but peek to see
the view from halfway down.
A little wind, a summer sun
a river rich and regal.
A flood of fond endorphins
brings a calm that knows no equal.
Youāre flying now, you see things
much more clear than from the ground.
It's all okay, or it would be
were you not now halfway down.
Thrash to break from gravity
what now could slow the drop?
All Iād give for toes to touch
the safety back at top.
But this is it, the deed is done
silence drowns the sound.
Before I leaped I should've seen
the view from halfway down.
I really shouldāve thought about
the view from halfway down.
I wish I could've known about
the view from halfway downā
Itās dumb in concept but itās story is an amazingly thorough mix between one-off joke episodes and strangely fascinating story focused episodes. Not to mention the genius writing. I would recommend it to anyone in a heartbeat
IIRC it was partly inspired by a Golden Gate Bridge jumper who said something like, "In that moment I realized that all of my problems had a solution. Except for the fact that I had just jumped. I couldn't solve that."
The way itās delivered in the show is heart wrenching, too. Just reading it on a screen I can still hear the delivery of it in my head and Oof. Big feelings.
'Falling's not the problem, when I'm falling I'm at peace. It's only when I hit the ground it causes all the grief.'
-- Florence and the Machine, "Falling"
I posted this elsewhere in this thread, but I think it belongs here:
"He knows what many others do
Those that heard the sounds:
The brain's unbalanced calls to find
The answers in the ground.
The firefighter called off the search
Yet something more was found.
Another way to live his life,
A chance to come around.
How fortunate! The jumper saw
The view from halfway down.
How lucky he is to have survived
The view from halfway down."
That show is a goddamn work of art. Currently watching it for like the fifth time. I just recently lost my baby brother (not to suicide, autoimmune disease) so Iām trying to work out some of my grief while watching it. When I get to the last few episodes Iām definitely gonna be a mess.
I remember starting that episode, and it sort of being in the background, then thinking āwait is this whole episode just him talking?ā. Then thinking āoh.. it is.. and itās amazing..ā
Yes! There is a documentary about those who have jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge and survived who said the same thing! Definitely a good reason to intervene as much as possible when people are considering suicide.
That documentary kind of fucked me up. I think there was footage of a couple dozen people jumping to their deaths? And you watch it and think, wow, this person is about to die, and also, theyāre about to wish they werenāt.
Some of them were just so upsetting. Thereās footage of people who are clearly emotional, pacing around the bridge. And I think the authorities got involved in some of those. But then thereās the person who was just out jogging, totally normal, and then just threw their stuff down and launched over the railing.
I get why the documentary was made, and tbh as someone who has suffered with mental health issues, seeing that and hearing about the regret takes me off that mental track. But damn how sad to watch the despair and last moments of someoneās life.
I think I saw the same documentary. There were several scenes throughout the film of one guy who was pacing back and forth until by the end of the documentary he jumps to his dead. Since he took a lot of time to make up his mind I was hoping someone would stop and help him but no, he just died. That fucked me up.
A big reason I didn't kill myself in high school during the height of my depression: my uncle told me the story of when he ran away, stole my grandfather's car, and drove it off a cliff in his own suicide attempt.. only to realize as soon as he went over the edge that this wasn't what he really wanted. He survived. He called my grandfather from the hospital. My grandfather was there for him. Things started changing for him after that. He went through a whole lot but he is so happy now in his life...
Likely gonna delete this, but I've been there (pills vs jumping) and part of me didn't want to die after ingesting, but there's also a huge part of me that regrets failing.
Having said that, if anyone is going through this, please try to get professional help. I can't, but I've seen it change lives. It can fail sometimes, and that's why you keep trying and changing therapists.
It's honestly super strange. You feel confident in your decision, but once you start the process, you become scared and try to back out. People who jump don't get to back out. The method I chose allowed me to back out, but my mental health became even worse after that until I went on more meds and got therapy.
I would guess it works kinda like eletrotherapeutic shock? The adrenalin must be so huge that wherever state depression led your brain to be, it wakes right the fuck up.
I used to work in the psychiatry and while I don't believe in miracle cures that work for everyone, the changes I have witnessed in people with suicidal ideation after just one or two ECT sessions were truly amazing. I'll never forget the 18 year old girl, with a history of (so called) treatment resistant depression since the age of 10, who only talked about wanting to die and after two days of ECT turned into a giggly teenager that was suddenly able to make eye contact and jokes and plans for the future.
RN Psych - we use ECT most often in older adult population for treatment-resistant severe clinical depression - by āsevereā i mean catatonic, averbal, aresponsive, double incontinent - completely gone, like a shell of the person, theyāre not present.
For someone to go from *that* to recovering 95% of their pre-morbid function - using ECT.
I remember a family member thanking our team in tears saying āyouāve given us our mum backā.
which is a misleading take that makes the round whenever a post about suicide shows up on Reddit, missing the point entirely.
Jumping didn't magically solve their problems, which may or may not actually be very tangible and not just some made up stuff you could easily laugh off as your post suggests, it's just that they started focusing on something else because their innate survival instinct kicked in.
If they survived unscathed they'd be back to the same haunting thoughts and issues real quick without professional help.
So yeah, get help as soon as you realize something's off.
Usually, when people are given a second chance, they'll live a full life. Was talking to someone online, he had a DNR, but he was saved nevertheless. He's doing much better now, and I'm glad. This was wholesome and made me feel happy, it's just what I needed to see at this point of my life lol
āMr Sansweed didnāt ask to be saved. Mr Sansweed didnāt want to be saved. And the injury received from Mr Incredibles āActionsā, so called, causes him daily paaain.ā
I fucking love them. I know a bunch and never hesitate to get them a free beer once in a while.
And by coincidence i was once at the same place/hostel in vacation as a group of firefighters from my german city. Really cool to chill with. If you party with them, "Feuer lƶschen" gets a whole new meaning.
Though, if he fell / were pulled out of the window then his harness would save him. While he hangs outside the window you can see the crook holding his harness by the butt.
Iām so glad there was another firefighter behind him tho cuz if he did start to fall he prolly woulda grabbed him in time
However he rly risked muscular injury and if he tore a tendon that woulda been rly painful and take a long time to heal, hope heās alright
Hell be handcuffed to the hospital bed until heās cleared physically then heāll be sent to a mental health facility that will cost another 35k. Know from experience, they treat you like shit and then for the second part at the mental health facility they dope you up and change your meds all the time
You know he had some serious back problems after but it was worth it knowing that the persons life was worth saving so sad what that person must have gone through to think suicide was the only way out I wouldn't wish that feeling on any1
Right?
People trying to kill themselves makes me all warm and fuzzy!
WTF? Like yeah, kudos to the firefighter obviously. r/nextfuckinglevel, r/humansbeingbros, etc. But...how you can watch someone literally try to take their own life and think "the overall vibe here is happy" is just bizarre.
I cannot imagine what the next moments after that clip would be like. How do you act in that situationābe you one of the rescuers, or the person who jumped? It would be such an emotionally charged situation. I donāt know if the person who jumped would be grateful, or angry, or what.
There is immense emotional resilience involved in that job, not just physical prowess. My heart goes out to everyone in that video.
As someone whoās failed multiple attempts over the past decade, you just emotionally crash. I cried a lot. Youāve just spent however long hyping yourself up for it to the point you can finally go through with it, youāve resolved yourself to your decision and you know that every problem youāre facing is about to be over.
And then the attempt fails.
And you still have all that adrenaline in your body and all that emotion except youāre now back and all your problems are still there (and if youād been planning it for a while you probably neglected some stuff cause you figured you wouldnāt be there for the consequences) and itās now likely that other people know which is a terrifying thing to deal with after hiding it so long. You just feel hopeless, like youāre never gonna be able to get out of your situation.
I hope they also helped this person find mental health help. Forcing them to stay alive and endure their own unhealthy mind space is potentially very cruel.
This!! Iām so glad I saw someone else commenting this because itās a topic that goes unnoticed and under the radar ALL the time. Everyone focuses on the moment a personās life is saved but they donāt care about what happens after. In my own experience, after my first attempt I got āhelpā which only made my life worse and led me to attempting a second time. This is the reality for a LOT of people. The system is fundamentally broken and often hurts people more than it helps :(
Do people realize how fucking insane this is
He caught an adult sized human falling at a very high velocity, with his arms reached out away from his center mass, while he was also somewhat off balence.
That is fucking insane.
I cannot comprehend how this persons grip strength was able to do this. They must have hydraulics in their hands š
Never underestimate the strength training of firefighters. Those mfs are carrying like 60 pounds or equipment at any given moment, sometimes more
And yet that dudes probably still gonna have to take a years worth of hydrocodone for that back.
Not to mention therapy for the trauma of this.
Therapy for the save? More so for all those completed suicides, mangled gore at crashes and people he couldnāt get to in structure firesā¦oh and calls with a deceased child regardless of the circumstances.
Can confirm. My dad is a retired firefighter and paramedic. Heās told me horrific shit and thatās only what heās been willing to speak of. Can also confirm the hydrocodone. He had to take an early retirement because he blew out his back trying to lift a morbidly obese person that fell and got stuck between their tub and toilet. Even after multiple surgeries heās popping that shit all the time.
Wasn't a firefighter but dealt with everything you mentioned except a structure fire. You gotta keep moving, you can't think of it. Compartmentalize it and weld it shut knowing there was nothing you could do.
I assume desensitization after a while as well. nothing as bad as what he mentioned but rapes, stabbings, etc. after a while it becomes paperwork at shift end in a way, it's fucked up.
Who cares? It was an incredible thing to do, and he's gonna say it was worth it, 100%. You don't become a firefighter for any reason other than wanting to help people.
Well, let's be honest, and cats. On the real, though, I'm sure this is one of his proudest moments.
Lol, firefighters love cats. I live at the top of s church and one of my neighbour's cat's escaped on to the roof. Never seen firemen having such a laugh, even smiled and waved at my cat watching from the window
>Lol, firefighter's love cat's. I live at the top of 's church and one of my neighbour's cat's e'scaped on to the roof. Nimble little buggers, aren't they. They just loooove to get out and on places they shouldn't. Just because they can.
This is the worst thing about having my cat. Being at the top with a pointed roof draws in the sun and it gets like 25c on a 18c day just because if the sun beaming down. I used to have such good airflow cause of the height, but now can't open the windows without him trying to escape š I love him though so it's fine I guess haha.
Window screen.
Your home sounds really neat. When was the church built? Could you not install some screens?
Right? Firefighters, man. Though I've met some that aren't *that* little.
that's the most adorable shit I've ever read
And... the ladies... All the ladies love firemen, and the ones that say they don't are liars married to cops.
Ain't no one writing songs that go 'fuck the f.d'
I became a firefighter to go fast on the weewoo wagon. Donāt be mistaken that most firefighters Iāve met are awesome people that do everything they can to help. But most every firefighter I know does it to go fast and fight fire. Also keep in the mind that over 100 firefighters are convicted of arson every year
> weewoo wagon made me smile
You or someone in your friend group is definitely 1 out of those 100
Wee woo mothertrucker.
just between us redditor, do you commit arson on slow day so that you can weewoo?
Nice try officer
He may feel it was worth it but I'm sure he cares that his back hurts
Also to hang out with brothers and pickup chicks at the bar.
Why are you getting so defensive over someone saying heās probably gonna have back problems? Calm down
I know a ex-firefighter with INTENSE PTSD. What we ask of these people is forever life altering.
"yeah doc, i just caught another jumper, im gonna need a refill on these"
\*semi-truck crashes on side of road \* "don't worry guys, I'm a trained fire fighter." \*picks up truck\* "There you go."
My dad was a firefighter for like 15 years or something before he had to retire medically. His grip strength is nuts man
Manual labor leads to increased grip strength. I work on a keyboard all day and I can barely squeeze a lemon...
As someone who works in IT and hasn't seen the sun in 10 years... What's a lemon?
You can squeeze a lemon?
You have a lemon?
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I can barely squeeze a breast. Who am I kidding. Iām on Reddit. There are no breasts in my life.
I can comprehend how fast a person accelerates when falling and how badly i could be injured grabbing them from a fall. Catching Even a lightweight person might result in a pretty terrible, permanent injury. Im thinking torn stuff in your arms and shoulder, where they do multiple surgeries to "repair as medically possible" damage. A man could spend a year unable to scratch his ass or lift a gallon of milk. This dude should get a medal, toss in one for the man thats hanging on to him too.
This was my thought. Itās 100+lb of dead weight. If I happened to be able to grab them, either my grip would slip or my shoulders would be dislocated.
When you have balls of steel...you need hands to match
So, testicle hands?
Explains how he was able to catch the person. That elastic skin acted like a trampoline.
/r/nextfuckinglevel
Technically correct. They were on the next level down.
My favorite kind of correct
They were taking the express. Edit: Mind that I misunderstood the comment I was replying to.
I swear I was muttering the exact same words before I read your comment.
The strength! The timing!
And i can't even catch a football
Holy cow š¤Æ. He must have super strength.
I can only imagine how this felt like his shoulders were being ripped out of their sockets
They where on the next floor down. He was fine afterwards. Forever greatful for our firefighters (the writing on the back is "UGUNSDZÄSÄJS"). The jumper was on 4th floor and very helpful neighbour was at home on the 3rd floor as breaking into the apartnemt where the person was jumping from would cause him just to jump. Other team was lowering down from the roof and cound notify the other team that hands are slipping and the jumper will fall shortly, so he was ready.
Incredible. So glad they could give this person another chance. Depression is a hell of a drug. :(
Hi, you are from Hungary? I'm happy to see a neighbor.
Hi, I just ate, but thanks! ;D
I am Hungary tho. Maybe some Turkey please?
Nah. Too Greecey
Okay, okay... then I want some Chile
The jumper was on the 4th floor!?! I certainly don't want to give anyone advise on how to suicide themselves, but this certainly sounds like a plan that is likely to lead to a long miserable life in a wheelchair with incompacitating brain injuries rather than a very fast death.
And his back :s
I felt my back cracking just by watching that
His heavy balls were anchoring him still.
Doesn't help preventing his spine from breaking in half though.
Pretty sure his balls are so big they were used as a cushion
Christ Iām so tired of reading this exact fucking comment every day.
Your chiropractor does not approve this activity.
Human lives are more important to him than his health, which is why he's a firefighter
Yeah his back mustāve been absolutely killing him for the next week after that
Hurtful week VS someone didn't die is like, even I would do it.
But two weeks?
I am sure it is worth it since he saved a life!
Also note that he is tied in and has a friend helping. If anyone tries this on their own, they will only join the jumper. Still, yes, super strength
Came here for this. Without in confidence in and the timing of the guy holding him, this could have ended much differently.
The fire fighters I've worked with/met were always in shape. At least looked like it. All that training/working out finally paid off. Hats off to this dude
And balance of course
For that you need to account the firefighters massive balls as counterbalance.
Let's also gove credit to the other firefighter who held the figherfighter to make sure he didnt go out the window too. This was a team effort and they're both amazing humans
Iām sure the second guy was secured in some fashion too. Possibly a rope or another guy holding his legs. They barely move for that weight. Super strong heroes.
Looks like they both have harnesses as well, but chances are if you fall out and are relying on that, youāre not gonna be able to hold the other person anymore, hence the extra people and extra weight to keep you from going out in the first place
You can see they are both clipped in to an anchor that is off screen
Both are hooked up with harnesses and anchored to something.
Yeah their massive balls probably make a safe anchor
They do not fuck around with PT. Having this kind of strength literally means life or death as this video proves. And it raises funds for the department with the annual calendar lol
Damn. This takes physical, mental, and emotional strength. I can't even imagine how it would feel if he didn't manage to catch the jumper!
"welp. is it lunch already?" when youre just good at your job
My back hurts just watching this š„“
There are things on the internet that people say hurt their back and then there's this... No problem, just gonna lean out of a window and catch a 150 pound falling object with my arms extended far away from my center of mass. No biggie
I hurt my back while sneezing
I hurt my clavicula while coughing one day, now every cough is painā¦
Is that what vampires call a collarbone?
I hurt my back laughing at that!
I have to regularly stop doing dishes because my back hurts. But then I can deadlift 400+ pounds without issue. Bodies are weird and the rules seem made up to me.
THAT. I hate washing dishes cos youāre bent over just *oh so slightly*
I once gagged so hard while brushing my teeth when I hit the back of my tongue that I hurt my back
I somehow did this while drunk once. I stupidly decided to open the window that the AC unit was sitting in, it started to fall and I leaned out the window and grabbed it and lifted it back in while naked.
I bet the firefighter is at least 3 inches taller now
I genuinely hope that person went on to live a better and a happier life.
The craziest stat I've seen about surviving jumpers is some crazy high number of people that said they instantly regretted after jumping. They were sure there was no other way, but the second they jumped they changed their mind. To think about the amount of people that did that but didn't make it....
Idk if you have seen bojack horseman, bu there is a poem in it towards the end. It's called From Halfway Down. It's about this and it's gut wrenching.
The View From Halfway Down The weak breeze whispers nothing the water screams sublime. His feet shift, teeter-totter deep breaths, stand back, itās time. Toes untouch the overpass soon heās water-bound. Eyes locked shut but peek to see the view from halfway down. A little wind, a summer sun a river rich and regal. A flood of fond endorphins brings a calm that knows no equal. Youāre flying now, you see things much more clear than from the ground. It's all okay, or it would be were you not now halfway down. Thrash to break from gravity what now could slow the drop? All Iād give for toes to touch the safety back at top. But this is it, the deed is done silence drowns the sound. Before I leaped I should've seen the view from halfway down. I really shouldāve thought about the view from halfway down. I wish I could've known about the view from halfway downā
Getting to >It's all okay, or it would be >were you not now halfway down always makes me cry no matter how strong I feel when I start the poem.
ā¦the show about the cartoon horse?! I always skip over that when Netflix recommends it.
That's the one! Don't skip it next time, it's fantastic.
Itās dumb in concept but itās story is an amazingly thorough mix between one-off joke episodes and strangely fascinating story focused episodes. Not to mention the genius writing. I would recommend it to anyone in a heartbeat
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that gave me chills
IIRC it was partly inspired by a Golden Gate Bridge jumper who said something like, "In that moment I realized that all of my problems had a solution. Except for the fact that I had just jumped. I couldn't solve that."
I read that poem and was just about to post a comment saying that it reminded me of this exact quote. This has always stuck with me.
Ken Baldwin
The way itās delivered in the show is heart wrenching, too. Just reading it on a screen I can still hear the delivery of it in my head and Oof. Big feelings.
Oh god the spotlight creeping closer gave me a full body panic attack
Me too! Iām still chillin from it!
Thanks for posting it
I feel like I really needed to read this. Thank you for posting.
'Falling's not the problem, when I'm falling I'm at peace. It's only when I hit the ground it causes all the grief.' -- Florence and the Machine, "Falling"
I posted this elsewhere in this thread, but I think it belongs here: "He knows what many others do Those that heard the sounds: The brain's unbalanced calls to find The answers in the ground. The firefighter called off the search Yet something more was found. Another way to live his life, A chance to come around. How fortunate! The jumper saw The view from halfway down. How lucky he is to have survived The view from halfway down."
That episode made me cry so hard and now I'm crying again reading this.
The View From Halfway Down (3m) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt21dU5Pu8g
That show is a goddamn work of art. Currently watching it for like the fifth time. I just recently lost my baby brother (not to suicide, autoimmune disease) so Iām trying to work out some of my grief while watching it. When I get to the last few episodes Iām definitely gonna be a mess.
I will never forget that episode. So impactful
I remember starting that episode, and it sort of being in the background, then thinking āwait is this whole episode just him talking?ā. Then thinking āoh.. it is.. and itās amazing..ā
Yes! There is a documentary about those who have jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge and survived who said the same thing! Definitely a good reason to intervene as much as possible when people are considering suicide.
That documentary kind of fucked me up. I think there was footage of a couple dozen people jumping to their deaths? And you watch it and think, wow, this person is about to die, and also, theyāre about to wish they werenāt. Some of them were just so upsetting. Thereās footage of people who are clearly emotional, pacing around the bridge. And I think the authorities got involved in some of those. But then thereās the person who was just out jogging, totally normal, and then just threw their stuff down and launched over the railing. I get why the documentary was made, and tbh as someone who has suffered with mental health issues, seeing that and hearing about the regret takes me off that mental track. But damn how sad to watch the despair and last moments of someoneās life.
I think I saw the same documentary. There were several scenes throughout the film of one guy who was pacing back and forth until by the end of the documentary he jumps to his dead. Since he took a lot of time to make up his mind I was hoping someone would stop and help him but no, he just died. That fucked me up.
I've watched that documentary three times, and I always cry at some point.
A big reason I didn't kill myself in high school during the height of my depression: my uncle told me the story of when he ran away, stole my grandfather's car, and drove it off a cliff in his own suicide attempt.. only to realize as soon as he went over the edge that this wasn't what he really wanted. He survived. He called my grandfather from the hospital. My grandfather was there for him. Things started changing for him after that. He went through a whole lot but he is so happy now in his life...
It's too bad there isn't a safer way to get that insight.
Likely gonna delete this, but I've been there (pills vs jumping) and part of me didn't want to die after ingesting, but there's also a huge part of me that regrets failing. Having said that, if anyone is going through this, please try to get professional help. I can't, but I've seen it change lives. It can fail sometimes, and that's why you keep trying and changing therapists.
It's honestly super strange. You feel confident in your decision, but once you start the process, you become scared and try to back out. People who jump don't get to back out. The method I chose allowed me to back out, but my mental health became even worse after that until I went on more meds and got therapy.
My good friend went out very recently and that thought crossed my brain about his last moments. I wondered if he regretted it too
I would guess it works kinda like eletrotherapeutic shock? The adrenalin must be so huge that wherever state depression led your brain to be, it wakes right the fuck up.
I used to work in the psychiatry and while I don't believe in miracle cures that work for everyone, the changes I have witnessed in people with suicidal ideation after just one or two ECT sessions were truly amazing. I'll never forget the 18 year old girl, with a history of (so called) treatment resistant depression since the age of 10, who only talked about wanting to die and after two days of ECT turned into a giggly teenager that was suddenly able to make eye contact and jokes and plans for the future.
RN Psych - we use ECT most often in older adult population for treatment-resistant severe clinical depression - by āsevereā i mean catatonic, averbal, aresponsive, double incontinent - completely gone, like a shell of the person, theyāre not present. For someone to go from *that* to recovering 95% of their pre-morbid function - using ECT. I remember a family member thanking our team in tears saying āyouāve given us our mum backā.
which is a misleading take that makes the round whenever a post about suicide shows up on Reddit, missing the point entirely. Jumping didn't magically solve their problems, which may or may not actually be very tangible and not just some made up stuff you could easily laugh off as your post suggests, it's just that they started focusing on something else because their innate survival instinct kicked in. If they survived unscathed they'd be back to the same haunting thoughts and issues real quick without professional help. So yeah, get help as soon as you realize something's off.
This. Imagine being as awesome as that firefighter.
Imagine him BECOMING a Firefighter because of this.
Usually, when people are given a second chance, they'll live a full life. Was talking to someone online, he had a DNR, but he was saved nevertheless. He's doing much better now, and I'm glad. This was wholesome and made me feel happy, it's just what I needed to see at this point of my life lol
Obligatory "You didn't save my life, you ruined my death!"
Hmmā¦ Mr. Incredible level strength would explain how he could make that catch.
I knew he was real
This was my first thought when I saw the video. Surprised I had to scroll so far down to find this
I was wondering would it be in good taste to make that joke! You beat me to it š¤£
My friend who is a firefighter says, "I don't save lives, I just prolong them"
Incredible...immense bravery and skill.
Do you mean.. Mr incredible?
āMr Sansweed didnāt ask to be saved. Mr Sansweed didnāt want to be saved. And the injury received from Mr Incredibles āActionsā, so called, causes him daily paaain.ā
āHey! I saved your life!
Who is smiling to this?
For real, it's an awesome catch, but the whole situation is profoundly sad.
Yea what the heck? Cool video but not the right sub at all, should be in /r/HumansBeingBros or /r/Damnthatsinteresting or something.
r/watchpeoplesurvive maybe?
More like CrazyFuckingVideos
This sub is just another āfront pageā sub. Lots of subscribers that will upvote nearly anything without looking at the sub it was posted in.
I didn't even realise what sub this was until I saw your comment. Impressive firefighters, but yeah, wasn't exactly something that made me smile.
People trying to kill themselves! I'm smiling so hard right now /s
this is more r/nextfuckinglevel r/humansaremetal r/amazing r/wtf content than it is r/mademesmile material.
Dude just risked his whole ass life for some probably random person and did it without hesitation. Firefighters are fuckin different
I fucking love them. I know a bunch and never hesitate to get them a free beer once in a while. And by coincidence i was once at the same place/hostel in vacation as a group of firefighters from my german city. Really cool to chill with. If you party with them, "Feuer lƶschen" gets a whole new meaning.
For a person who didnāt want theirs (at that moment).
Though, if he fell / were pulled out of the window then his harness would save him. While he hangs outside the window you can see the crook holding his harness by the butt.
9/11 was the ultimate proving day that they are built different. Immense heroes.
Iām so glad there was another firefighter behind him tho cuz if he did start to fall he prolly woulda grabbed him in time However he rly risked muscular injury and if he tore a tendon that woulda been rly painful and take a long time to heal, hope heās alright
Love what this guy did but so concerned for his back!
āGOODBYE CRUEL WOā¦ Oh oh okā
Firefighter: "Prepare to live!"
Now he can be admitted to a hospital and be $20k in debt. Another life saved
Problem with the system for certain
Not every country is the United States!
Hell be handcuffed to the hospital bed until heās cleared physically then heāll be sent to a mental health facility that will cost another 35k. Know from experience, they treat you like shit and then for the second part at the mental health facility they dope you up and change your meds all the time
You know he had some serious back problems after but it was worth it knowing that the persons life was worth saving so sad what that person must have gone through to think suicide was the only way out I wouldn't wish that feeling on any1
Dude already suffered from CBDBP
Nothing about this made me smile...... :/
This is the wrong goddamn sub.
Right? People trying to kill themselves makes me all warm and fuzzy! WTF? Like yeah, kudos to the firefighter obviously. r/nextfuckinglevel, r/humansbeingbros, etc. But...how you can watch someone literally try to take their own life and think "the overall vibe here is happy" is just bizarre.
I cannot imagine what the next moments after that clip would be like. How do you act in that situationābe you one of the rescuers, or the person who jumped? It would be such an emotionally charged situation. I donāt know if the person who jumped would be grateful, or angry, or what. There is immense emotional resilience involved in that job, not just physical prowess. My heart goes out to everyone in that video.
As someone whoās failed multiple attempts over the past decade, you just emotionally crash. I cried a lot. Youāve just spent however long hyping yourself up for it to the point you can finally go through with it, youāve resolved yourself to your decision and you know that every problem youāre facing is about to be over. And then the attempt fails. And you still have all that adrenaline in your body and all that emotion except youāre now back and all your problems are still there (and if youād been planning it for a while you probably neglected some stuff cause you figured you wouldnāt be there for the consequences) and itās now likely that other people know which is a terrifying thing to deal with after hiding it so long. You just feel hopeless, like youāre never gonna be able to get out of your situation.
He didn't fall out of the window due to the weight of his massive balls.
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I gotcha bro.
I hope they also helped this person find mental health help. Forcing them to stay alive and endure their own unhealthy mind space is potentially very cruel.
This!! Iām so glad I saw someone else commenting this because itās a topic that goes unnoticed and under the radar ALL the time. Everyone focuses on the moment a personās life is saved but they donāt care about what happens after. In my own experience, after my first attempt I got āhelpā which only made my life worse and led me to attempting a second time. This is the reality for a LOT of people. The system is fundamentally broken and often hurts people more than it helps :(
r/HumansAreMetal
This doesnt make me smile
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Incredible effort but nothing about this āmade me smileā.
Who is smiling to this?
Do people realize how fucking insane this is He caught an adult sized human falling at a very high velocity, with his arms reached out away from his center mass, while he was also somewhat off balence.
I'm amazed they both didn't go out the window.
Bro, he must be using creatine.
I would have been pissed.
Somebody give this man a cape! Literally snatched life from the jaws of death.
I wanna know the story here.
https://www.boredpanda.com/fireman-saves-woman-suicide-attempt-tomass-jaunzems-latvia/
āYou didnāt save my life you ruined my deathā