What's going on with Etika?

That video, "I'm Sorry" - I wish everyone could see this and appreciate how fucking normal "mental illness" actually is. How normal and perceptive your friends and family look moments before they kill themselves. It seems to be the thing, that once it happens, once someone finds the body, once the world knows that "so-n-so killed themselves" we can take solace in... telling the rest of the world and ourselves that this person "suffered from a disease" that we could NEVER relate to... I am certain these people do/did suffer, but fuck this norm of pretending the ones who end it are so distinctly unhinged, as if they're some separate class of people we can easily identify and separate ourselves from. You may not be in a good place when you decide to kill yourself, but that doesn't mean you weren't in your right mind. And to pledge otherwise for these people is an insult to their memory. - Thank you for sharing this. I didn't know about this guy, but seeing how normal, insightful, and human he was (even after making his decision), it reaffirms the last memories I have with my brother. He was normal, sweet, insightful, and just David, a few hours before.

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