Brian Harvey Reveals Suicidal Thoughts Following Hospital Visit: 'Desperation Takes Over' | HuffPost

Brian Reveals 'Desperate' Situation Left Him Suicidal

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East 17 singer Brian Harvey has revealed that his “desperate” situation recently left him considering taking his own life.

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Brian said during an interview with MP Simon Danczuk for LBC that he is now unemployed and living on benefits, and was left with suicidal thoughts after a hospital visit last month.

He explained: “I could have walked out of that place that night, walked off and jumped off a bridge. Because, I tell you what - I felt like it.”

Brian Harvey

The singer went on to call for more care for people who are suicidal, claiming that people should be better looked after in their darkest moments.

Brian added: “We need a walk-in centre specifically designed for when, in the middle of the night, someone thinks ‘I am going to hang myself’ or ‘I am going to a forest and jump out of a tree with a noose around my neck,’ because I have thought of all these things. Desperation takes over.”

The MP who conducted the interview has now called for more care for artists, claiming the music industry needs to be more concerned with the welfare of its entertainers.

MP Simon Danczuk

Speaking to The Independent, Simon Danczuk said: “Brian is a really good guy. I meet lots of people while I’m going about my work and Brian is a genuinely lovely guy.

“I think he has been notoriously badly treated by the tabloid newspapers who should have better understanding of mental health issues.

“I’m 48. I remember the Bay City Rollers and I can’t help thinking that little has changed in terms of support for artists since then.

“We know the music industry supports a mental health charity. We know it lobbies the government for financial support for artists. But the music industry hasn’t contributed a penny directly.”

Earlier this year, Brian uploaded a video to YouTube which showed him smashing up his platinum records in the street, and hitting out at the music industry, describing it as a “weird paedophile world”.

After he made similar comments about Radio 1, the BBC publicly responded, branding his allegations “clearly absurd and offensive”.

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Channing Tatum(01 of33)

“I truly believe some people need medication,” Tatum tells Vanity Fair's July 2013 issue. “I did not. I did better at school when I was on it, but it made me a zombie. You become obsessive. Dexedrine, Adderall. It’s like any other drug. It’s like coke, or crystal meth. The more you do, the less it works. For a time, it would work well. Then it worked less and my pain was more. I would go through wild bouts of depression, horrible comedowns. I understand why kids kill themselves. I absolutely do. You feel terrible. You feel soul-less. I’d never do it to my child.” (credit:AP)

LeAnn Rimes(02 of33)

"I had been crying all day, staying in bed," she explained to People of her depression. "I've had all eyes on me since I was 13, so there was a lot to sift through. I started dealing with emotions I had ignored." (credit:AP)

Billy Joel(03 of33)

"I was kind of in a mental fog, and it had nothing to do with the booze. My mind wasn’t right. I wasn’t focused. I went into a deep, deep depression after 9/11," Joel told the New York Times in May 2013. "9/11 just knocked the wind out of me, and I don’t know even now if I’ve recovered from it." (credit:Getty)

Eva Longoria(04 of33)

"I didn't know I was depressed," the actress told Dr. Oz about her divorce. "I was not eating. I was depressed. I was sad. My diet was coffee. So people kept saying, 'You look amazing. Divorce agrees with you,' " she said. "And I was like, I don't feel good. I have no energy." (credit:Getty)

Matthew Perry(05 of33)

The "Friends" star told ABC News in May 2013 that he battled depression and went to rehab multiple times as a result. "Mostly it was drinking, you know, and opiates," Perry told ABC. "I think I was pretty good at hiding it but, you know, eventually people were aware." (credit:Getty)

Jon Hamm(06 of33)

The "Mad Men" star faced chronic depression after his father's death. "You can change your brain chemistry enough to think: 'I want to get up in the morning; I don't want to sleep until four in the afternoon," Hamm told U.K. magazine The Observer in September 2010, speaking about medication. (credit:Getty)

Ashley Judd(07 of33)

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Demi Lovato(08 of33)

“What I can say is that I was depressed,” she told the Fabulous magazine in 2012 after she went to rehab for an eating disorder, among other things. “I would come off stage in front of 18,000 people and suddenly be alone in a hotel room. I’d come crashing down and would try to find a way to recreate that feeling, to stay up.” (credit:Getty)

Michelle Williams(09 of33)

"I've dealt with depression," the singer and actress told the Associated Press. "I had to choose to get out of bed and do whatever I needed to do to be happy." (credit:Getty)

David Arquette(10 of33)

"I got really into drugs before I got serious with Courteney," Arquette told Oprah. "It was something that scared her early on in our relationship. My mother was dying, and it was the first time that I really used that to numb the feelings I was having and not face any of the reality I was going through." (credit:Getty)

Catherine Zeta-Jones(11 of33)

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Gwyneth Paltrow(12 of33)

Paltrow had postpartum depression following the birth of her son Moses. "I felt like a zombie," Paltrow told Good Housekeeping in February 2011. "I couldn't access my emotions. I thought postpartum depression meant you were sobbing every single day and incapable of looking after a child. But there are different shades and depths of it." (credit:Getty)

Nicole Kidman(13 of33)

“I married [Tom Cruise] really fast and really young, but I don’t regret that because it got me Bella and Connor, and I did have a fantastic marriage for a long period," Kidman told Australia's WHO magazine. "Then when it didn't work out, I had to really dig deep and find my way through depression, but I have no regrets about all of it. It was all a part of growing up.” (credit:Getty)

Brooke Shields(14 of33)

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Winona Ryder(15 of33)

"I had just done 'Dracula' and 'Edward Scissorhands.' I had just had my first real break-up, the first heartbreak. And I think it was really ironic because, like, everybody else just thought I had everything in the world... (and) I had no reason to be depressed," Ryder told Elle UK in 2009. "Everything was sort of at its peak, but inside I was completely lost. I remember feeling, 'I can't complain about anything, because I'm so lucky, I'm so lucky.'" (credit:Getty)

Ellen DeGeneres(16 of33)

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Angelina Jolie(17 of33)

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Kendra Wilkinson(18 of33)

“It got pretty bad, [but] not to the point where I would harm my family," Wilkinson told People of her postpartum depression. "I was a great mom and did what I needed to, but I was definitely very depressed. [Motherhood is] a big change in life and it happened overnight.” (credit:Getty)

Bryce Dallas Howard(19 of33)

"My husband began shooting a television series, and late evenings when he returned home, I would meet him at the door, shaking with fury, 'I've hit the wall and gone through it, and I feel I am expected to go further,'" Howard explained of her postpartum depression. "He would ask what he could do to help, but knowing there was nothing he could do, I screamed expletives at him, behavior he had never experienced in the seven years we had been together. (credit:Getty)

Kirsten Dunst(20 of33)

“It’s not something I feel like totally comfortable talking about but yeah, it’s a very personal thing," Dunst told Ellen DeGeneres of her depression in 2011. “It’s also interesting as an actress you’re supposed to be sensitive and vulnerable and have this side to you. But then you’re supposed to be super sociable and ‘on’ and like nice to everybody. That’s a weird dichotomy. It’s a lot to ask of a person. It’s not a normal thing.” (credit:Getty)

Zach Braff(21 of33)

"I think I suffer from some mild depression," he told Parade magazine in 2007 following the release of "Garden State." "So to have millions of people go, 'I watched your movie and related' was the ultimate affirmation that I'm not a freak." (credit:Getty)

Mandy Moore(22 of33)

"A few months ago, I felt really low, really sad -- depressed for no reason," she told Jane magazine. "I'm a very positive person ... so it was like someone flipped a switch in me." (credit:Getty)

Amanda Peet(23 of33)

"I want to be honest about it because I think there's still so much shame when you have mixed feelings about being a mom instead of feeling this sort of 'bliss,'" Peet told Gotham magazine of her postpartum depression in 2008. "I think a lot of people still really struggle with that, but it's hard to find other people who are willing to talk about it." (credit:Getty)

Sheryl Crow(24 of33)

"During some of those darkest days, I'd hardly get out of bed and just let the phone ring and ring. Small problems became insurmountable and so I shied away from normal behavior," Crow said according to ContactMusic.com. "It seemed easier to duck out of life that way. Depression messed with my sleep in such a way that it was a very bizarre, exhausting and dark time." (credit:Getty)

Anne Hathaway(25 of33)

Hathaway admitted she battled depression in her teenage years in Tatler magazine in 2007. "I said to Mom the other day, 'Do you remember that girl? She has now gone, gone to sleep. She has said her piece and she is gone.' But then I thought, 'I so remember her, only she is no longer part of me. I am sorry she was hurting for so long.' It's all so negatively narcissistic to be so consumed with self." (credit:Getty)

Pete Wentz(26 of33)

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Russell Brand(27 of33)

Brand battled depression, which led to an eating disorder. "It was really unusual in boys, quite embarrassing. But I found it euphoric," Brand told The Observer in 2006 of his struggle with bulimia. "It was clearly about getting out of myself and isolation. Feeling inadequate and unpleasant." (credit:Getty)

Emma Thompson(28 of33)

"I’ve certainly had clinical depression," she admitted, according to Now magazine. "Absolutely I’ve had it before, at regular intervals through my life. I know what that is like." (credit:Getty)

Dolly Parton(29 of33)

"I went through a dark time -- it lasted several months," Parton told the Globe, according to the NY Daily News. "Then one day, I just said to myself, 'Right, get off your fat butt, or if you really are suicidal, then go and shoot your brains out,'" she says. "I thought, 'Maybe God didn't want me to have kids so that everybody else's kids could be mine." (credit:Getty)

Halle Berry(30 of33)

“I took my dogs, and I went in the garage and sat in the car. For two or three hours, I just cried and I cried. I thought ‘I can’t face it.’ I think that’s the weakest I have ever been in my life. That’s what the breakup of my marriage did to me," Berry told Ebony magazine. “It took away my self-esteem. It beat me down to the lowest of lows — the gum on the bottom of David’s shoe, that’s what I felt like. Somewhere in my heart, I think I knew I didn’t really want to end my life. I just wanted to end the pain.” (credit:Getty)

Jim Carrey(31 of33)

"I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. I had to get off at a certain point because I realized that, you know, everything's just okay," Carrey told 60 Minutes. "You need to get out of bed every day and say that life is good. That's what I did, although at times it was very difficult for me." (credit:Getty)

Adam Duritz(32 of33)

"I've been dealing with mental illness," Duritz told People in 2008 of his depression. "But I didn't want to say anything for a long time. I went crazy. It was scary ... It's scary when the world isn't real to you. You come untethered. Everything seems imaginary. You look around the room and nothing seems real. You don't feel pain. I stopped letting myself feel." (credit:Getty)

Rosie O'Donnell(33 of33)

"The dark cloud that arrived in my childhood did not leave until I was 37 and started taking medication," she told "GMA," noting how much antidepressants have improved over the years. "The gray has gone away. I am living in bright Technicolor." (credit:Getty)

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