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Thomas Murphy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
355 total appearances

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Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

And that's the war that we're in.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

So people think that when I say that, it sounds a little sensational.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

But we're losing our young people at a rate that planet Earth has never seen before.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

And what are we doing about it?

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

It's a clip.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

It's a newsflash.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

And then we move on.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

3,041 high scores attempt every day.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

3,400.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

3,041 high scores attempt every day.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

What a conversation that is.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

Malcolm Gladwell talks about this Swiss cheese effect in his great book, Outliers, talks about the holes having to line up.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

It's never one thing.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

It's not bullying.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

I mean, we know that there's a direct correlation between depression and suicide.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

But sometimes it takes a bunch of things for a young person to make that decision.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

You might be a kid who's sleeping on his dad's girlfriend's trailer couch, the two middle school girls

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

that are in that trail are making life hell for you.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

Your dad says to you when you're 18, you're out of here, pal.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

You bring a knife to school, and the school catches you and suspends you and throws you out of school.