{"id":283,"date":"2013-10-14T20:55:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T20:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/affirmation.org\/?p=283"},"modified":"2020-11-18T12:56:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T19:56:40","slug":"byu-students-speak-candidly-about-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affirmation.org\/es\/byu-estudiantes-hablan-francamente-sobre-el-suicidio\/","title":{"rendered":"Los estudiantes de BYU hablan con franqueza sobre el suicidio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;Just Be There&#039;: A Message of Suicide Prevention Awareness from Brigham Young University Students\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uqkaWTM_vK8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>USGA Releases \u201cJust Be There\u201d Video<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UsgaAtByu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Understanding Same-Gender Attraction<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(USGA), a BYU group for LGBT students, has released \u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uqkaWTM_vK8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Just Be There<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d a 6-minute video featuring LGBT BYU students who describe candidly their experiences dealing with depression and their attempts to take their own lives.<\/p>\n<p>The students describe some of the negative messages that made them feel lonely, sinful, and hopeless. For instance, one student says he heard the message that homosexuality \u201cwas a mortal experience [that] didn\u2019t exist in the Spirit World, and we would be immediately freed from its bonds when we died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a weird way, that did the opposite of comfort[ing] me,\u201d the student explains. \u201cIn my mind the option was, \u2018Well, if things really get that bad, if you just die, then suddenly it\u2019s not an issue any more, and you\u2019ll be right with God again.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another student says he found comfort in reading the scriptures and realizing that \u201cwhatever I was going through, Christ had gone through, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re trying to reach out to somebody, the most important thing you can do is just be there for them,\u201d a student explains.<\/p>\n<p>USGA at BYU meets each Thursday, with weekly attendance growing to 70 to 80 students, professors and church leaders. The individual interviews used in this video will be made available on\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/byuitgetsbetter\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the USGA YouTube channel<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>Posted 18 months ago,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ym0jXg-hKCI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BYU\u2019s original \u201cIt Gets Better\u201d video<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has been watched over half a million times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding Same-Gender Attraction (USGA), un grupo de BYU para estudiantes LGBT, ha lanzado &quot;Just Be There&quot;, un video de 6 minutos con estudiantes LGBT BYU que describen con franqueza sus experiencias al lidiar con la depresi\u00f3n y sus intentos de quitarse la 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