In an effort to encourage students suffering from mental illness to get help, Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz has revealed that he was once so depressed he tried to kill himself.
Wentz has joined diva Mary J. Blige and Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan to front the Jed Foundation’s Half Of Us campaign, which is aimed at cutting student suicide rates.
Wentz, Blige and Corgan sat for interviews, in which they detail their darkest hours. The interviews appear on MTV’s college channel mtvU.
In Wentz’s video he admits to being paralysed by anxiety and depression at the beginning of his career and he felt so lost and alone he attempted suicide.
“I got in my car. I remember I was listening to Jeff Buckley doing Leonard Cohen’s (song) Hallelujah and sat there and took a bunch of (prescription drug) Adavan in a Best Buy (store) parking lot.
“And I called up my manager because I was, at that point, completely out of my head with Adavan. And I was talking to him and I was slurring my words, so he called my mom and my mom called me and she came and got me and we went to the hospital.
“I came home and we realised that we needed to do more than just keep (my) head above water. It’s not really about keeping your head above water, it’s about feeling all right and feeling safe in your own skin. It’s not about keeping your head above water and barely keep going.”
Hey y’all…see, if you are feeling helpless and lost, you aren’t alone.
Suicide is never the answer!
Please reach out and get some help.
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