My Dad is Nuts PSA 1983

[oatstao]

I like your segues into what you were video taping. :D they played that commercial alot.

[nicetryjason]

Go Canada.

[sasukeluver345]

AWWW MAN! i wanna watch superman 2!

[Singingjacobus]

I remember that day. Superman on TV. Fuck.

[joeytrimble]

my dad went nuts .. same thing happened to him lmao

[Coolestmovies]

Believe it or not, this kid's father was Zod! KNEEL before Zod!

[OofusTwillip]

The Bloor Viaduct is such a huge draw for potential suicides that the authorities installed huge barriers to prevent them. Unfortunately, they did this too late to save one of the victims of childhood sexual abuse at Maple Leaf Gardens. Upon learning that his abuser basically got away with it, Martin Kruze jumped to his death from the Viaduct.

[joeytrimble]

@OofusTwillip what is this? the bloor viaduct

[OofusTwillip]

@joeytrimble - The Bloor Viaduct is the huge bridge over the DVP. It's known as "the suicide bridge" because so many people jumped to their deaths from it. Now that suicide barriers have been installed, there haven't been any more suicides there. But the overall suicide rate is essentially unchanged, because people are just going elsewhere or using other methods. Clearly, those barriers are just a band-aid, instead of dealing with the root causes of suicide.

[thegirl44]

@OofusTwillip

I didn't know that they had approved the barriers, that fuckery was being drawn out when I left Canada. I'm glad to hear that although, as you've said, it doesn't address the root problem.

I was still getting Macleans magazine all the time that I was in the UK and every couple of months there'd be some writeup about how Health Canada was going to pump all of this money into mental health yet nothing ever seemed to come to fruition. Is it time for Grassroot programs do you think?

[OofusTwillip]

@thegirl44 - The latest is that Bell Canada has just donated a huge sum to CAMH, to expand mental health facilities. And in a related story, (surprise, surprise) it seems that corrections officials have only just realized that our jails are crowded with heaps & heaps of people who belong in mental facilities, not jails, but are in those jails because so many mental health facilities were shut down to save money, and because "the mentally ill should be in the community, not in institutions".

[thegirl44]

@OofusTwillip

So this is going to correct the fuckery of when they dumped all of those long term institutionalized individuals on the streets back in the 80's with no community outreach and/or followup by putting them back into institutions? Makes sense to me *rolls eyes*.

Wouldn't you think that a good start would be for someone to admit that closing down those institutions was a bad idea?

[kidfortoday]

well i guess the psa is saying that just because someone suffers from mental illness its no reason for them to be shunned by people.

also, theres the DVP and the "suicide bridge" also featured in degrassi junior high when stephanie kay had the suicidal dream where she was standing on the bridge looking over