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Suicide

At 26-years-old I was married with a son. I was a sound engineer, session musician, and my band was weeks...

I was only 8 years old when my father killed himself after a long struggle with mental illness. The effect...

Losing someone to suicide is more than just a heaviness in the heart, it's more than a puncture in your...

If someone out there is feeling alone, if you find a tiny bit of hope, even if it is a...

Elle* was the daughter I never had. We first met in 2013 when she joined a creative writing group I...

Mother One morning when I was five years old, my father who was a lorry driver went to work and...

I’m a mixed race man with 2 children, who was brought up and lived in Sheffield the whole of my...

Hannah’s story Age: 30 I became depressed in my early teens when I was looking after my mum who was...

Before my breakdown, I was working a stressful job that made me a lot of my money. I was OBSESSED...

I am an anaesthetist, close to retirement. When I was growing up in the 1960s, suicide was not something that...