TWLOHA: An Intro

A "promo" video I put together to introduce TWLOHA to my youth group.

It's more than a t-shirt.
It's a movement.

*Text from "Blue Like Jazz," twloha.com, and interviews with victims of depression and people involved with the movement via myspace.

*Pictures include Paramore, Underoath, Boys Like Girls, Anberlin, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, The Sick Puppies, The Rocket Summer, Amy Lee of Evanescence...

"Something was broken in the world and it was our job to hold our palms against the wound"- Blue Like Jazz

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[jazzhopin]

Wow, Creed and these depressed self loathing trend followers? If theres a hell im already here.

[KtizzleTrizzle]

The song was initially supposed to be "We are broken," by Paramore.

[mslb98]

OMGGG I LOVE IT!!!!

i might use this for my yg.. would that be ok?? i would give you credit!

this is an amazing idea!!!

great job!!

<3 Margaux

p.s. i just joined TWLOHA just a few months ago

[KtizzleTrizzle]

Use it for whatever you feel you need to! I know this comment is 6 months late, so sorry.

A suggestion: Mute the background music and find Paramore's "We are Broken" track to play instead. Copyright laws say the song that fits can't be on youtube.

[Tigcat2]

To write Love On Her Arms <33

Thanks to finding this, and my awesome friends, I'm still alive today. Thank you so much Twloha..^^ I owe my life to you guys.

I was also so inspired by Twloha, I am starting something similar. Although, it's not being started for the same reason, obviously. Wish me luck. ^^ <33

[esoTink3]

If you don't believe it's not a trend, then keep your mouth shut. Unless you've lived it like me and so many other people, you will never understand it so you can't judge something or someone you know nothing about.

[ShellyDropDeadBabe]

. i used to self harm myself...

but i stopped.

it hurts to rememmber why i did it.

i had my reasons.

its been two years since then and i could say im still not happy with how my life turned out and i have the scars to prove it.

i love this group. it realy helped me. and i hate it whe people are just thinking its some kind of fad and then cutting themselfs just for fucking fun , casue its not ! people actally had to suffer becasue of all this. Twloha. ♥

[Rachaelbyrne1]

I guess that some people do self harm because it's trendy but if that's the reason then aren't they hurting? i mean if they have to self harm just to get attention then they do have problems right?

But I don't think it a trend, pain is complicated and some experiance it in different ways and this helps them. It sounds sad but it TWLOHA gives me hope that others can be happy. They deserve happiness, especially after going though so much pain.

[TheSarge21]

grow the fuck up you small minded person. Pain is not a trend, pain is somthing that real, that we all experiance. Pain is a right of passage, and yet a road that seems never ending. TWLOHA tries to help people see there is an edding to the pain they feel..... Its not a trend, its a realisation that life is shit sometimes, but it can also be somthing so much more, somthing so beautiful.

[KtizzleTrizzle]

Just remember- You're worth more than you allow yourself to believe. You're worth more than "having" to hurt yourself. :D

[pinsandneedles13]

it's to help people who hurt themselves not support it.