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  • By: Jazz Thornton
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By: Jazz Thornton
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Summary

Jazz Thornton first attempted to take her own life at the age of 12. Multiple attempts followed and she spent time in psychiatric wards and under medical supervision as she rode the roller coaster of depression and anxiety through her teenage years - yet the attempts continued.

Find out what Jazz learned about how her negative thought patterns came to be and how she turned those thoughts - and her life - around. Who and what helped and what didn't help. The insights she gives will help create greater understanding of those grappling with mental illness and provide support for those around them who desperately want to help.

Jazz went on to attend film school and to co-found Voices of Hope, a non-profit organisation dedicated to helping those with mental health issues and show them there is a way forward. She creates online content to provide hope and help. 

Her first video Dear Suicidal Me has had over 80 million views all around the world. She went on to create Jessica's Tree, a web series that follows the 24 hours between a friend, Jess, going missing and the discovery of her body. It provides insights into Jessica's struggles, to help people better understand those suffering from depression. Jessica's Tree was viewed more than 230,000 times in the two months following its release in March 2019 and immediately began winning international recognition and awards, including the Huawei Mate30 Pro New Zealand Television Awards 2019 Best Web Series.

The process and the delicate decisions that had to be made to create Jessica's Tree have themselves been documented in a film about Jazz called The Girl on the Bridge, due for release early in 2020.

©2020 Jazz Thornton (P)2020 Penguin Random House New Zealand

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Truly inspirational

I could not rate this high enough. It’s such a great insight to multiple things and has helped me so much.

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very good listening, very thought provoking coming from someone who has gone through an lot from such a young age and shows you it is always worth fighting to live your life and things can and will get better.

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Jazz is strong, inspiring and helps develop hope!

I listened to this audiobook during my 2nd year of university. Which was very hard for me, stressful, and at times, felt pointless. But I’m here, nearly going into 3rd year. Thankyou Jazz, you’re loved and cared for by many. 🤍

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Jazz Thornton and her incredible successes

Wow! Such an amazing story. I admire Jazz Thornton so much, and she has definitely changed mine and many perspectives on mental health. She is so brave to share her story and her journey is almost identical to mine. I see myself in her younger self and I now know that the way to get out of this is to fight. This book will change my life, should be required reading for mental health professionals and people working with young people and children. Incredible, a favourite for sure.

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wonderful book

this book was genuinely incredible and has altered my view of other and my own mental health. what an incredible story from an incredible person.

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Blown Away! 5*

Jazz is a brilliant mental health advocate with an amazing story to tell. As I listened to this audio book and read the physical copy at the same time, I personally went through a whirl wind of emotions as Jazz’s story unfolded both good events and bad ones.

This story hit home to me in many occasions as i have a very similar background story to Jazz’s, She has included many warning and trigger discretions before divulging into the hard reality of mental health and it’s effects!

Thank you for such a well written book, I’m currently studying to do mental health nursing and will recommend this book to both friends and patients as it is very well explained, offers supportive coping methods and gives this beacon of hope!

Thank you for such an amazing book and thank you for sharing your story! 🤍

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such an inspirational story.. jazz you are incredible. will totally recommend this book to everyone.

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Great

Great read but a bit to religious for me . Jazz has her ups and downs but she shows hope.

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This book has been so helpful

Jazz's story is very inspiring and will stay with me forever. This book helped me understand myself better and has given me hope that i can forgive the parts of myself that iv tried my best to escape.
Thank you

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Too self absorbed

Too self absorbed; I couldn't listen to her. And too much self-psychoanalysing in a Psychology 101 kind of way; it was boring. And I thought it was disturbing how she thought she could help other girls. I couldn't listen any more after that.

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