When the cancer he battled as a teenager returned and spread to his brain, Adry Awan decided he wasn't going to let the disease end his life.
He'd end it himself.
"I remembered the young people I knew who lost their battle with brain cancer because the strain that it placed on their physical health, their mental health, or both was too much a burden to bear.
"I had had enough."
On Saturday, the 20-year-old told his story to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Months after the diagnosis, he is now in remission and working with Headspace to help other young people struggling with mental illness.
Mr Turnbull officially opened Headspace in Bondi Junction on Saturday as he made his second visit to his eastern Sydney electorate of Wentworth during the election campaign so far.
Wife Lucy made her debut on the trail, the pair arriving in winter knits as the chill of winter finally arrived in Sydney.
They toured the centre, stopping for plenty of hand shakes and selfies, with the prime minister offering up some of his own advice about selfie-taking.
"That's what you need, you need Go-Go-Gadget arms."
Mr Turnbull said mental health was an important issue in his electorate, which is home to The Gap, a notorious suicide spot at Watsons Bay.
It was one of the most beautiful places in Australia, but also one of the most tragic, he said.
"More people take their lives there than in anywhere else in Australia and yet a little love makes such a difference," he said.
"A word, a hand, some help, changes people's lives even at the very edge, literally - and perhaps here metaphorically."
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