An online service which aims to promote music as an aid to battling depression is launching a fundraising campaign. Mental health activist Maureen O’Kelly and her husband Iain Kelly want
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“I have met many parents who have lost a child to suicide,” explains Louis Appleby, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manchester and Chair of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory
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Childline is handling soaring numbers of calls from children seeking help for suicidal thoughts, a new report has revealed. The NSPCC service held 19,481 counselling sessions about suicide in 2015/16
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A University of East London report has found that a unique pilot programme which offers people experiencing emotional distress or feeling suicidal, greatly improved the wellbeing of most clients. The
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Government welfare cuts will lead to an increase in suicides, a prominent crossbench peer has warned. Baroness Meacher, who led the fight in the House of Lords against planned cuts
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More than half of young people who died by suicide had previously self-harmed, a report looking at dozens of deaths found. Bereavement, physical illness, school pressures and bullying were among
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An increased risk of suicide in prison may be linked to staff shortages, a new report suggests. Researchers quizzed former and current inmates about the issue after a rise in
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Rail tickets are to feature the Samaritans’ logo and phone number as part of a campaign to cut suicides. The printing will appear on the back of paper tickets, along
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Almost half of people with mental health problems who have contemplated suicide said money, housing or benefits issues were to blame. A poll of 1,505 people who had used mental
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Watchdogs have raised concerns after it emerged nine inmates have taken their own lives at a prison in recent years. There had been five more self-inflicted deaths since HMP Woodhill
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