The Girl on the Bridge | movie | 2020 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

In the increasing public discourse on mental health, Leanne Pooley’s inspiring and fearless documentary tracks an extr | dG1fWTlGVVVmSGd6TW8

Transcript

00:00In the last eight days, I have received six goodbye messages from people.

00:04I have literally had to restrain someone who was trying to take their life.

00:08I have been on the phone to someone else who was about to take their life.

00:11It has been one heck of a week.

00:16Our epidemic that we call suicide is no longer something that we can survive through,

00:21but we must, must, must learn how to fight.

00:24Our generation is sitting here like, we're the ones that are dying,

00:26and therefore we have to be the ones that will stand up and solve it because no one else is going to.

00:31My name's Jazz.

00:35I was once the person on the other side.

00:38I was once the person wanting to jump off the bridge.

00:43Planning how I was going to die.

00:46You're consumed by that 24-7.

00:50Because young people identify with her, they contact her constantly.

00:54There is not a single thing in my life that is not to do with suicide.

00:58You've got people talking to you every single day, not wanting to be here anymore.

01:04Yeah.

01:08It's weird how normal that is to me now.

01:10We're all the sum of different lives.

01:18The reasons why people get to this place isn't a simple equation.

01:22You just got really overwhelmed with it all.

01:24I'm terrified of waking up the next day to someone's suicide message and...

01:28You can't be the world counsellor.

01:30The thing is, I was so careful not to give anyone enough information about me

01:35that they would know how broken I really was.

01:37So many lines.

01:44She feels all these things and you can't explain it, you don't...

01:48This won't be easy.

01:49And it's human to turn away from pain.

01:52I am so angry.

01:54Why is it easier to get pizza delivered to your house

01:57than it is to access a crisis worker when you're about to kill yourself?

02:00This is the problem.

02:01No one knows what to do, to do, to help.

02:06I just want to give my daughter a hug.

02:13She's found a purpose for all the journey that she's been on.

02:17Man, that's going to take a lot of courage.

02:22They're your friends, they're your family, they're your work colleagues, they're your neighbours.

02:26It's time that we become a society where people actually feel like they can ask for help.