When In Doubt Reach Out
Those are some very strong words in that headline. Unfortunately they came a little too late for former Australian Idol singer Levi Keremea who took his own life in Brisbane last night by falling from a hotel balcony. Levi finished sixth on the first year of Australian Idol but was actually really popular with the group he was in composed of his brothers and called Lethbridge.
On one of the Facebook memorial sites set up for him after his death, a lot of the messages talked about how he had been depressed recently and could not seem to pull out of it. In response, someone posted the headline that I used here. Last month a popular Australian television actor also committed suicide by falling off a hotel balcony because he too was suffering from depression.
I'm not a doctor, obviously, and I don't even play one on tv, so I don't know about clinical depression or anything like that. I do know though that just going through something in life can leave someone in a funk or depressed and you often don't see a way out. At that point, you just need to find anyone you can to talk to. It is amazing how restorative even a few words from someone can be, whether they are about you or the weather. Sometimes it is just that one on one which can start the process. Also, if your friends seem lethargic or out of it for no reason or if you do know a reason, take some time to give them a call before you read this site. Depression happens to almost everyone at some point in their lives. Obviously as we have seen in the past month in Australia it happens even to people who have a great deal to live for and who we probably never would suspect are depressed. When in doubt, reach out.
