To all people who might know people in their family or friends circle who might suffer from mental health issues, please take them seriously and support them to get them any help they can get.
A popular youtuber just died today and i wish the doctors would have been a greater help when he needed it the most. This is a real tragedy.
Rest in peace Etika.
I apologize to the mods for an OW unrelated topic, but i think this is important to spread awareness.
The problem isn’t family or friends not helping, it’s the professional health care system that’s trash. So many people can’t afford it, let alone even get proper appointments to see someone.
Even if he said he pushed everyone away who wanted to help him, there’s still a very big problem in how mental illness is even treated for those who suffer like him. And this is something that happens all over the world.
I get that. It just wish things could have been handled differently.
Wait, something happened to Etika? Damn…
My sister actually tried to commit suicide herself, I was just very, very lucky that she came to me and asked for help before the pills took effect. They pumped her stomach and now she does not even need to take medication. She still has episodes of severe depression now and again, but I was so fortunate that she trusted me enough and in the back of her head thought “I do not really want this” and is now living life as close to healthy as humanely possible.
She genuinely thought she was a burden despite the fact that I was her best friend, we did everything together for years being attached at the hip. We were just watching a movie and talking about what we were going to do tomorrow when she snuck downstairs after we were set up for bed. It really opened my eyes to how crippling some of these mental conditions are. Just hearing about all of her plans… It was disturbing to say the least.
Either way, rest in peace, Etika.
Can someone explain who Etika is and/or what happened for those of us not in the know? Seen a few other people making these “Call someone if you have a problem” comments in other places recently as well as well.
If you dont know Etika, he was a popular youtuber known for Nintendo reactions and streaming.
In recent events he raised concerns about his mental health by showing self destructive behaviour on social media.
His body was found today.
I agree
A simple “how are you?” or even just acknowledging someone going through that can go a long way.
Its the reason why I’m still around, as morbid as that sounds
Rest in peace, Etika. He was one hell of an entertainer.
Well, it is on subject technically.
Etika did play OW as I recall him saying that the game was so addicting, playing as Genji and chopping people down. He said he was up for days playing and told people to “not buy this game” because it was so addicting. You could see how tired he looked from his thumbnail of the video he made called “Do not buy this game” iirc.
I watched Etika for years now and I am very saddened by this. I sadly watched as he slowly crumbled, and I, feeling as a helpless bystander and not knowing what was going on behind closed doors made it worse. I still was not sure what was going on with him but prayed he would recover. He suffered in the end and that is what gets me the most. He was too great a soul.
I hope he is now in a place of calm and love
That guy always brought a smile to my face. I watched the live coverage all night last night since my gut told me it was him. I really enjoyed his personality and his content. It hit me hard knowing that, behind his facade, lied a man in pain and anguish. Even worse? Him saying that it really wasn’t the “real him” at all.
Deep down, he was a great guy and helped more than he will ever know.
Rest in Peace Etika 
It’s a pity. Between this and the previous self-destructive behavior (as well as being diagnosed as “agitated” when dropped off at a mental clinic before), I’m guessing he was bipolar. They would have been able to treat it, if the mental health system wasn’t such a trainwreck.
I suffer from bipolar disorder and even had many mental break downs before but only under a lot of stress in a real life situation. i know what he was going through This is just a piece of sh** to deal with. One day you’re happy and have nothing against life or yourself and then the other day you wake up you just can’t stop thinking about bad stuff and being angry/frustrated just hating yourself having self destructive thoughts it’s like all the frustrations in your life come at the same time and the bad thoughts keep coming in.
Yeah when you watch these youtuber’s vids, streams, and see them in memes all the time they kinda feel like distant friends. It sucks. Rest in Peace Etika
Sounds more like a government problem rather than a healthcare one.
Every game needs full time content creators and just about every single one has some dip in their mental health because of their work at some point or another. There’s definitely a degree of relevance, especially if there’s anyone here that plays as much as a FT streamer.
Lifes really too short to be upset at eachother, hope you all have amazing rest of season, do your best out there!
Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe wrote it best
Everybody hurts
Bless you for being there for her. 
It was really sad because a lot of the other young adults there did not have family come to visit them and there was a mother who was trying to see her daughter and her daughter declined to see her. It made me realize that as dysfunctional as we were, at least we cared about each other. There were people in far worse circumstances.
They wanted to let my sister out early because she was so unlike the others, but it was a mandatory week of therapy/rehab. It was actually a role reversal because my sister was all jolly and trying to cheer up the other teenagers there and I was so lethargic and just sitting in my bed crying all week. Rofl.
Etika passing honestly brought back a lot of that and I cannot believe that I cried because he was gone. That has never happened to me before. Not sure if it is because they brought back those emotions or if it is because I will genuinely miss him. He always made my sister and I so happy whenever we watched him and I feel bad that he was going through all of that…
It sucks, man.
Sure wish I didn’t see a suicide awareness post on the OW forums on one of my bottom days in between the binge shots and pity sex phases of my coping process.
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