FYI, it took 3 of us a full HOUR to set-up and SNAP this Pic, with Ron behind his mobile camera – my ACE photographer; and his Partner in Crime the Lovely Ai (Japanese for Love, who went to the same school as Yoko ONO!!!) – but is the current owner of 2 Maltese – and Dog Whisperer Extraordinaire; not 2 4get, my ACE BLACK & SAM!!!
- The job Australia has done over 43 years has been so good WELL DONE AUSTRALIA!
- But I believe the HUGE and Fantastic FALL IN FATALATIES has bottomed out and further reduction will mean
- Curbing Substance Use, Inattention, Domestic Violence, Murder, Road Rage, Mental Health Issues, and Suicides while behind the wheel!
- These things are MUCH HARDER to reduce by Policing, Advertising and Legislation!
Suicides.
- Sadly, the ACTUAL SUICIDES in this timeframe have gone the other way
- Following on Ms Kate Carnell’s 2014 quote (on above Graph)
- The fact that NO-ONE in the Medical Profession/Suicide Prevention Organisations or Researches that I am aware of, have apparently taken any time and and exercised some ‘free thinking’ thought – to Research/Investigate and ACT on this…
- Is a HUGE NATIONAL TRADGEDY in itself!
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- I am asking the question…
- Why is it that since 1921, stats consistently say that 75% Suicides are Males and
- My very strong conclusion is that the most likely and OBVIOUS reason for this
- Is the link with T for Testosterone, explained in the ads below.
- With a SIGNIFICANT USER-END INPUT – e.g. Unprofessional USER-END Aussies including myself, with a Broad and HUGE LIFE Experience and VERY HIGH LEVELS of EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE…
- As per the 2 adverts featuring Professor Carol Hooven and her wonderful book Testosterone. The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides US.
After the 5 pages with Black Borders…
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My 6-point Dream.
Please note, 23.2.24. I’ve added eIQ …
LIFE SAFE eIQ
where the e donates – the Adult Course of Emotional Intelligence is available online.
N.B. to find out about my own Brothel experiences, and Lobbying the S.A. Parliament for Sex Worker’s proper rights – being able to Work Legally for starters – and Safe Working Conditions, simply press the “Suicidal Politics” menu tab.
I must have penned 3-400 poems in my lifetime. Written for the day Rudd said SORRY, The Gracious ART of Sorry rates in the TOP 5 of my ‘best’, and is my very own example of Life Safe Emotional Intelligence, eIQ, that ALL Aussies should know.
For podcast of my Radio National Interview played on “Breakfast with Fran Kelly a little after 6.00 am on this wonderful day, goto Suicidal Politics and scroll down.
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Testosterone 1 and 2 re advert in SMH 27.1.24 below.
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*Some men see things as they are, and ask WHY? I dream of things that never were, and ask WHY NOT?*
*Penned* by George Bernard Shaw, (1856-1950), made famous by President J.F. Kennedy, (1917-1963) and brother Robert Kennedy in his campaign 4 Presidency in 1968, (1929-1968).
With Martin Luther King Jr. (1925-1968), these 3 HUGE & BRAVE agents of change, ALL HAD BIG DREAMS but so sadly all died young by assassination.
While I can’t remember exactly when I first heard Shaw’s wonderful quote, it may well have been around the time Neil Armstrong put Man’s 1st foot on the Moon (1968), a dream first ‘launched’ some years earlier, by the visionary President, JFK.
But the first time I heard it, it went STRAIGHT IN to my Mind, Heart and Soul; where it has STAYED. It now inspires me with a great Passion, to MY DREAM, to change the way Suicide Prevention is UNDERSTOOD and DELIVERED!
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For those most welcome new visitors to this site, if you want to have a (2016) GOOD LOOK AT ME, WHO I AM, WHAT I DO – AND WHY???, (8 minute video featuring my then Trusty Sheep Dog Angel, my most loved Barossa Hills, (Including my SHEEP DOG JOKE)…
Scroll down past some of my best adverts, starting with my FAVOURITE,
The Me That U never See…
Scroll right down till you come to a
BLUE sign saying CROWD FUNDING for NSW Suicide Prevention ads,
Immediately below this pls find my 2016 BBC radio interview with Claudia Hammond of HEALTH CHECK and Professor Keith Hawton, Prof. of Suicide Research at Oxford University, with appraisal and critique of my work.
Pls note I TOTALLY FORGAVE CLAUDIA for saying to what could have been 1,000,000 BBC listeners that
The Barossa Valley, was in N.S.W.!!!
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My very Best Love and Best Wishes go out
To EVERYONE who visits this site
I do hope you have a rich, fruitful, and informing experience.
tim barritt x 21.12.2024.
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Hang on TIGHT 2 Life!
Every 3 hours, one ‘Good Aussie’ Commits Suicide!
As a Sheep Farmer, Poet, Entertainer, Busker in London Underpasses, 1973, (my favourite Pitch was the underpass tunnel, corner Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street, just 20Meters up from the Gentleman’s Toilet (I used to tell people it was the Busking Pitch with EVERY Convenience). I read my Poems in the Poetry Clubs, I also ended up doing a tiny amount of paid GIGS in the Folk Clubs…
A HUGE SHOUT-OUT to Phillip Adams AO,
For writing a FOUR Sentence Foreword to my 2’nd self Published Book of Poems
Common Thread (1995)
After I launched my 1st Book, Harvest Time of Dying (1989), a wonderful Barossa Woman wrote to me saying…
“If you have a LIGHT, don’t HIDE IT UNDER A TABLE!”
It’s only taken 35 Years to act on her advice –
Click on Tab below for Front/Back Covers and Foreword
Common Thread Phillip Adams AO
Also…
There is NOTHING on this site for sale. I earn my living running sheep – not selling Poetry or Suicide Prevention.
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*Please NOTE. This is NOT a *HELP site…
*If you are feeling Suicidal or struggling with UR Mental Health, if urgent, numbers for Australia only, *Dial 000, see ANY *Doctor, *Suicide Callback 1300 659 467, *Lifeline 13 11 14. If less urgent see ANY Doctor or Mental Health Professional, go to beyondblue or Lifeline websites or by telephone as recommended on those sites.
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Last decade 25,304 Aussies Suicided. 6,089 were ‘Beautiful‘ Aussie Females.
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Unlock UR Heart
Love – or Lack of it – causes so many Suicides…
Especially when we STOP loving ourselves!
◊◊◊Broken and Lonely hearts cause many Suicides.
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Sex Abuse and Domestic Violence.
Why do I do Suicide Prevention AND Domestic Violence?
Why do I know so much about HEAVY DUTY emotional Pain?
Because I got VIOLENTLY SEXUALLY ASSAULTED – age 15 – in 1967!
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Depression, Situational Crisis and
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Sex Appeal.
It works for selling cars and practically anything else. It’s also a VERY important ingredient for Suicide Prevention.
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We like our ducks – ALL Lined up in a row!
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Who’s this sheep farmer bloke anyway?
The following story appeared in the ‘South Australian Showcase’ – celebrating a ‘Showcase of Inspiration’ of country South Australia by Country Press S.A. “which was inserted into all member newspapers across the State” the first week of September 2014, for the Adelaide Show. Click once, then twice on image to enlarge to read the text.
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Where does he live and why does he do Suicide Prevention?
While my crowdfunding attempts to raise money for adverts in the Sydney Morning Herald did NOT prove successful (crowdfunding site closed), if you want to ‘meet’ me in person, along with my trusty sheep dog ‘Angel’ – in my home town of Lyndoch – this 8 minute video might just give you a laugh, and introduce you ‘in another way’ – to who I am and what I do.
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Podcast of BBC Radio interview with Claudia Hammond of BBC ‘Health Check’ and
Professor Keith Hawton – Director of Suicide Research at Oxford University…
with Critique and Appraisal of my work.
Recorded March 2016 – with grateful thanks to Claudia Hammond (TWO degrees in Psychology), and of course the BBC.
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*Please note… this is NOT a *HELP site…
*If you are feeling Suicidal or struggling with UR Mental Health, if urgent, numbers for Australia only, *Dial 000, see ANY *Doctor, *Suicide Callback 1300 659 467, *Lifeline 13 11 14. If less urgent see ANY Doctor or Mental Health Professional, go to beyondblue or Lifeline websites or by telephone as recommended on these sites.
Also important to note
- There is nothing on this site ‘for sale’. I earn my money running sheep, NOT placing ads.
- I DO NOT give Professional advice which I am NOT qualified to do…
- My adverts at all times highlight the many, many issues which cause Suicide – educating the ‘Whole Community’, teens to old age and then…
- Guide those at risk and those around them into *Professional Care as *above.
- After 10 years I am currently – 15.10.23 – writing my 277th advert (all completely different) , they have appeared in three separate S.A. Papers and one in NSW without to date… one single complaint from anyone.
As far as I am aware, they are unique not only in Australia, but world wide. They do not seek to replace OR compete with Professionals, Organizations, Doctors, Mental Health Professionals, Lifeline, beyondblue, Black Dog etc….
They are intended to enhance Community awareness of most of the related issues around Suicide, without relying on Acts of Parliament, new or different organizations etc. or massive injections of public money.
They are also DIRT CHEAP. Working on the average ‘charity’ reduced advertising rate – for being a community service, and assuming only a 10% reader uptake of the advert, they cost around 10 cents a read. Just how much is one ‘good Aussie’s’ life worth!
I use pictures, humor, graphic design and SEX APPEAL to ‘draw my reader in’ to the ad. I also use Love, 70 years of my own ‘ups and downs’ as experience. I try to make them easy to read and take in, with non Professional, non threatening language, and concentrate on the common, universal issues which cause Suicides like Heartbreak, Situational Crisis, Loneliness, Trauma and Mental Health issues.
Since I started this journey June 23rd 2013, with my very first advert – I have spent over $23,000 of my own, hard earned money placing adverts myself – but now have two totally anonymous fortnightly sponsors, one for my ads in the Barossa ‘Leader’ (23,000 readers), and the other for my ads in the Byron Shire Weekly, NSW, (50,000 readers and free online as well).
The ‘ethic’ behind All my ads is to highlight the many issues, largely learned from 70 years of my own life experiences, then guide readers into Professional Help as above.
Importantly, they are ALSO intended to teach partners, lovers, family, friends, work/team mates and everyone else in the community the signs and circumstances of emotional pain, so they can play a key role in keeping others alive! Initially by encouraging them to get this Professional Help ASAP, and next by offering their own valuable love, caring and support. The Life you save – might NOT just be your own!
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The site also has some info about who I am, why I do what I do, the history of these adverts, and my contact details.
Updated 21.12.2024.
tim barritt. x