Hull man 'seconds from death' turns life around with new venture

QUOTE:
A Hessle man who was seconds away from jumping off the Humber Bridge to take his own life is now looking to set up his own business.

Jay Tointon, 21, had been feeling like “everything was pointless� one Saturday night after he had come home from drinking a few beers with friends.

Jay, of Bethune Avenue in Hessle, was at a particularly low point after losing his dad less than two years ago and felt ‘sick of feeling like this’.

He walked to the Humber Bridge to take his own life where a kind stranger appeared on a bicycle “out of nowhere� and saved his life.

Over a month on from that night, Jay is now hoping to turn his life around by setting up his own valet business.

He said: “I have been thinking about it for a while. I have done valeting before and really enjoyed it and wanted to start my own business.

“It is something I can look forward to.

“I have gone through the job centre to try and get help with it and applied to the Princes Trust and sent my business plan.�

But Jay needs a little help to get himself started and has set up a GoFundMe page to get his business off the ground.

He is hoping to raise £800 which will help him to buy a van and get started.

Jay now feels he has something to look forward to with his new business venture and is “looking at things more positively�.

He said: “I am trying to look at things in a different way and trying to look at things more positively, instead of all the bad things.

“I think this is why I want to get stuck into this business because this could change who I am. I have been thinking of doing this for a while and hopefully I can make something of it.�

Jay and the kind stranger who helped him down from the Humber Bridge on that dark night still keep in regular contact with each other.

Hull Live's Speak Up campaign aims to raise awareness of mental health issues in young men.

With suicide the biggest killer of men under 45, more has to be done to help people in need.

By shining a spotlight on these issues, we hope to encourage men struggling with mental health issues to speak up and seek help.

We all need to Speak Up for men's mental health.

Looking back, Jay says he would have taken a different approach to his mental health now that he is seeing things differently.

“Just speak to people,� he said, “which is completely the opposite to what I did.�

“I bottled it up for a year or two and you just don’t realise how many people are there for you and how many people it would affect if you did go through with it.

“It makes you feel a hundred times better to speak to people. When you just bottle it up it can be a bad place to be.�

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On 22/08/2020 18:20, Simon Mason wrote:
QUOTE:
A Hessle man who was seconds away from jumping off the Humber Bridge to take his own life is now looking to set up his own business.

Jay Tointon, 21, had been feeling like “everything was pointless� one Saturday night after he had come home from drinking a few beers with friends.

Jay, of Bethune Avenue in Hessle, was at a particularly low point after losing his dad less than two years ago and felt ‘sick of feeling like this’.

He walked to the Humber Bridge to take his own life where a kind stranger appeared on a bicycle “out of nowhere� and saved his life.

Over a month on from that night, Jay is now hoping to turn his life around by setting up his own valet business.

He said: “I have been thinking about it for a while. I have done valeting before and really enjoyed it and wanted to start my own business.

“It is something I can look forward to.

“I have gone through the job centre to try and get help with it and applied to the Princes Trust and sent my business plan.�

But Jay needs a little help to get himself started and has set up a GoFundMe page to get his business off the ground.

He is hoping to raise £800 which will help him to buy a van and get started.

Jay now feels he has something to look forward to with his new business venture and is “looking at things more positively�.

He said: “I am trying to look at things in a different way and trying to look at things more positively, instead of all the bad things.

“I think this is why I want to get stuck into this business because this could change who I am. I have been thinking of doing this for a while and hopefully I can make something of it.�

Jay and the kind stranger who helped him down from the Humber Bridge on that dark night still keep in regular contact with each other.

Hull Live's Speak Up campaign aims to raise awareness of mental health issues in young men.

With suicide the biggest killer of men under 45, more has to be done to help people in need.

By shining a spotlight on these issues, we hope to encourage men struggling with mental health issues to speak up and seek help.

We all need to Speak Up for men's mental health.

Looking back, Jay says he would have taken a different approach to his mental health now that he is seeing things differently.

“Just speak to people,� he said, “which is completely the opposite to what I did.�

“I bottled it up for a year or two and you just don’t realise how many people are there for you and how many people it would affect if you did go through with it.

“It makes you feel a hundred times better to speak to people. When you just bottle it up it can be a bad place to be.�

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