Pete Wentz has made a startling revelation that he had tried to commit suicide after feeling paralyzed by depression and anxiety at the beginning of his career. Pete along with Mary J. Blige, and Billy Corgan have taped interviews for MTV's college channel MTVU, to help the Jed Foundation's Half Of Us campaign which works on cutting down the rate of student suicides. Here's what Pete had to say in his video interview:
"The darkest moment was when we had just finished recording out major label record and two days later we were going to go to Europe and I felt completely lost and out of control. At that point, I'd seen some doctors and they were Hollywood doctors so they gave me a cocktail (of prescription drugs) but I was kind of the drugstore cowboy, so I took the cocktail the way I wanted to take it."
"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 realized 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."
Unfortunately I had a couple of friends who committed suicide in high school and I'm sure some of you readers have too. Sometimes you can't see the depression that someone's going through until it's too late. If you feel overly depressed and think there's no other way out besides taking your own life, please talk to your friends and family. If you know of anyone who may be suicidal please try talking to them! Many suicides happen and the family or friends had no idea how depressed the person was.
** I've gotta wrap up my shiznit for now but there will be linkage up later today!**
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