Kai Cauhan: “We were always told I was overtrained, undertrained and over budget. I came out of retirement because I felt I needed a change.”
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Dana Cauhan – “We weren’t getting the results that we wanted, especially after I quit.”
This time he took his own life, taking his girlfriend at the time, Kayli Cauhan, with him. “We were never even in the same vehicle,” Kayli says. “It was kind of a bizarre circumstance.”
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Dana Cauhan says, “In my mind, what I was really trying to do was change the culture. I thought I was on my own for a long, long time, like so many other people were.” He went to the police and had his suspension lifted after 11 months.
Cauhan wasn’t alone in his struggle to fit in. In fact, in the age of social media everyone has his or her own social media account, making it difficult for anyone to get that little bit of help they need.
But a local radio DJ with the name “Cape Town” created a simple, one-line YouTube video, “If you’re looking for anything at the time of your appointment – do you have a problem, get in touch. Ask for what you should do.”
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The videos went viral and the hashtag #PrayForDrCauhan began trending on Twitter. “I think in three hours it went from a thing that I do for my body to something that I do for my community,” Cauhan says.
People sent him food and asked for their advice and for a little bit of help, he began to look into counselling.
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Dr Cauhan says people’s attitudes are “completely different” today. “We’re living in a new world with technology. It’s really difficult for most of us. It’s very difficult to do, it’s not really easy and it was kind of hard for me because I wasn’t used to being alone.”
Dr Robert, a psychologist from New Zealand, says, “Social media is a way to share one’s thoughts and feelings with a network of people that are not connected to other people. When a young man of 19 or 20 approaches such a group, he may have many friends whom he knows and trusts, yet he is sharing his thoughts