Inactive Desmond Daniel Amofah / Etika / Etika World Network - Dead nigga

[Jaiman]

Why cant speds just take a break from the internet whenever it becomes too much to handle?

When your career is centered around the internet, you don't have much of a choice by then.

 

[a_lurker]

WTF is up with /v/ having a sticky of this guy when they were gassing projared shit because NO -ECELEBS!

Not only that you're getting banned if you make jokes about it, I guess it's a bridge too far.

I guess /v/ really is nothing but Nintendo faggotry, literally worse than muslims.

Jared is a cis white male.
Mr. Amofo got at least one of them diversity points.

 

[AStupidMonkey]

Assuming he did a flip, I for one am saddened and disheartened that the revolution was not televised.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

WTF is up with /v/ having a sticky of this guy when they were gassing projared shit because NO -ECELEBS!

Not only that you're getting banned if you make jokes about it, I guess it's a bridge too far.

I guess /v/ really is nothing but Nintendo faggotry, literally worse than muslims.

was banned for replaying to a off topic thread. /v/ has gotten more gay over the years.

 

[gay]

HE ONLY ASKED FOR ONE THING YOUTUBE.

 

[FG 294]

The only person who's responsible for your own well-being is yourself, you can only blame so much shit on mental health. I've got problems but I ain't gonna use it as a crutch for fuck ups or attention whore with it.

You're not wrong but at the same time I feel like someone's determination can only take them so far. Some people aren't going to recover unless they're forced to. He said himself in his last video that you can't help someone who doesn't want to help themselves. How can someone want to help themselves if they're experiencing a disconnect with reality?

 

[JoyQ]

Why don't Americans take mental health seriously?

It’s definitely not an American problem but a world wide problem. Mental health services are still very new in human history. There are still many pre-conceived judgements about it, stigma, doctors not understanding it fully. Also funding is terrible and psych wards are overcrowded. They will turn people away because of a lack of beds.

We may be behind a handful of countries but none have it fully figured out yet.

 

[assphault]

Honestly, watching Etika's last few months are terrifying if you suffer from a mental as well. Or at least understand some mental illness to some agree. The thought of the possibility of going on the deep end like that is scary. Losing a brother too. If my sibling died I'd probably be feeling the same way. This is so heartbreaking even from an outside perspective.

 

[PoisonedBun]

Same can be said for any tragedy the media drums up and forces you to look at and feel bad about. People, entire countries' worth of people, are dying unimaginable cruel, horrible deaths every single day. Why should I harbor emotional feelings for particular cases being presented to me? Because the media tells me to? I think not.

I think people care about individual cases because something more could have been done. War, famine, pollution, genuine oppression - individuals can't make a difference in these kinds of fields unless they are very rich/powerful. But just one man's life, maybe that could have been saved by another's, just if the right people had intervened. I think the loss of an opportunity to prevent small, unnecessary tragedy is what people mourn.

 

[Maltninja]

You're not wrong but at the same time I feel like someone's determination can only take them so far. Some people aren't going to recover unless they're forced to. He said himself in his last video that you can't help someone who doesn't want to help themselves. How can someone want to help themselves if they're experiencing a disconnect with reality?

I'm genuinely curious as to what you mean by 'forcing ' a recovery. I've never heard of such a thing. Can you give examples?

 

[Super Color Up]

I might have made a shitty mspaint image at his expense, but this is genuinely saddening. Its sickening the general populace doesnt care about mental health-- not really, anyway. I've had my own brushes with it, and it's awful. I wish he could've gotten the help he desperately needed, and as sad as it is, only he could have gotten the help he needed, but he didn't want it.

I won't cry for him, but I will press F.

I'm genuinely curious as to what you mean by 'forcing ' a recovery. I've never heard of such a thing. Can you give examples?

Florida has a law in place called the Baker Act, where if someone is threatening suicide, they can be forcibly removed and placed in a psych ward for a mandatory period of 3 days. You'll either be released in that amount of time if youre deemed healthy enough to carry on, or will be detained if youre a danger to yourself.

Not sure where else its in place, however.

 

[Itu aru kamusu tugeza]

Honestly, watching Etika's last few months are terrifying if you suffer from a mental as well. Or at least understand some mental illness to some agree. The thought of the possibility of going on the deep end like that is scary. Losing a brother too. If my sibling died I'd probably be feeling the same way. This is so heartbreaking even from an outside perspective.

Can't bring up any specific ones off the top of my head, but I can recall several stories about family members following suit after a loved one passes, as many as there are partners in many long marriages leaving this world one day after the other.
Considering two of the three Amofah brothers are gone, the patriarch lives outside the States, that leaves the other two. At the very most I hope all these affairs left get wrapped up cleanly and without consequence, but I can't help but wonder what's to become of the survivors.

 

[JoyQ]

Florida has a law in place called the Baker Act, where if someone is threatening suicide, they can be forcibly removed and placed in a psych ward for a mandatory period of 3 days. You'll either be released in that amount of time if youre deemed healthy enough to carry on, or will be detained if youre a danger to yourself.

Not sure where else its in place, however.

You can’t force someone to recover. What they are doing is trying to keep you in a safe environment so you can’t hurt yourself or others. It’s like a time out. They can offer services, diagnose you, prescribe medication during that time but you can’t force someone to talk about their issues or continue taking medication once they are released.

It is called a 5150 hold in California.

 

[Odie Esty]

it's not him because that'd be halfway interesting and god hates us

god's in his tower, all's right with the world

 

[BOLDYSPICY!]

Fair point. People should really care more about suicide and mental health issues beyond an e-celeb, it's not right that there's others just like this in his shoes that get slipped through and normally get no attention until someone big gains traction for becoming an hero.

Sorry, I had to go take a walk & cool off because I was starting to get Mad On The Internet™. Now that I'm thinking a little more clearly. . .

Guess I'm more mad that these idiots managed to miss that on top of being detained on video and there being evidence on his social media he was losing his mind they just gave him the boot and moved on instead of being competent.

See, this is where things get tricky, for a number of reasons. Such as:

Mental hospitals in the US are just glorified holding cells where they stick people until they give them a prescription and kick them out.

There just isn't enough funding to give people proper care. Weirdly enough, despite mental institutions being absolute shit back in the day, Reagan closing them down left a lot of people on the streets. Things haven't exactly improved since then.
Point #2:

On top of that, he probably refused treatment, which is well within a patient's rights, under most circumstances.
The legal barriers for going against a patient's informed decision are rather high, and rightfully so.

The onus was on Etika to get help. Which he. . .kinda did? But never followed through. & when the police came to get him & he joked(?) about sucking their dicks, well. . .I can't really blame people for not taking him seriously.
Point #3:

Why don't Americans take mental health seriously?

The only person who's responsible for your own well-being is yourself, you can only blame so much shit on mental health. I've got problems but I ain't gonna use it as a crutch for fuck ups or attention whore with it.

There's more that can be said, but that's the gist of it. I'll admit, when I saw the post of the suicide note with all the stupid-ass emojis, I rolled my eyes & kept scrolling. I didn't watch the video until today, & only a few seconds in, the realization that "oh fuck, he's serious" hit. That's how most suicides go, you don't realize what's happening until it's too late. In a lot of the cases I've seen, the victim is often unusually happy beforehand, which adds a whole new layer of complexity to the situation.

Same can be said for any tragedy the media drums up and forces you to look at and feel bad about. People, entire countries' worth of people, are dying unimaginable cruel, horrible deaths every single day. Why should I harbor emotional feelings for particular cases being presented to me? Because the media tells me to? I think not.

Point taken, but this isn't a media thing for me, this is coming from lived experience. But yeah, I get you.

 

[FG 294]

I'm genuinely curious as to what you mean by 'forcing ' a recovery. I've never heard of such a thing. Can you give examples?

hmm, maybe "forcing" was the wrong word to use. I just mean if he'd been kept in recovery longer (whether he wanted it or not), maybe things would have turned out differently. The psych hospital he went to decided he was just "agitated" -- I can imagine him thinking that his mental issues clearly aren't that big a deal and doubling down on refusing help because of that.

 

[Maltninja]

Florida has a law in place called the Baker Act, where if someone is threatening suicide, they can be forcibly removed and placed in a psych ward for a mandatory period of 3 days. You'll either be released in that amount of time if youre deemed healthy enough to carry on, or will be detained if youre a danger to yourself.

Not sure where else its in place, however.

Sectioning, we'd call that the UK. Stops you hurting others, or yourself. Not a bad thing to to, as a short-term thing while someone is having an 'episode', but it rarely leads to anything sadly. It's a drunk tank for crazies. I suspect most are released to family, caregiver etc. Don't quote me on that, it's my impression of the state of things over there based on talking to Americans who do volunteer work with the homeless and/or mentally ill.

 

[assphault]

Can't bring up any specific ones off the top of my head, but I can recall several stories about family members following suit after a loved one passes, as many as there are partners in many long marriages leaving this world one day after the other.
Considering two of the three Amofah brothers are gone, the patriarch lives outside the States, that leaves the other two. At the very most I hope all these affairs left get wrapped up cleanly and without consequence, but I can't help but wonder what's to become of the survivors.

This must be excruciating for the parents. Imagine 2 of your 3 kids dying before you did. It'd almost seem like a curse.

 

[Mexican_Wizard_711]

Even if the afterlife did exist, Etika will most likely get his sorry ass to hell for committing An Hero.

It will probably go like this

 

[Polystyrene Glioblastoma]

Oh God...