Film launches suicide prevention campaign
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Doctors will be helping alert politicians to the importance of suicide prevention when a film is screened in Parliament today.
It is being shown as part of a joint launch event for the Call for Action for Suicide Prevention in England and the government’s suicide prevention strategy.
The message is that although anyone can experience suicidal thoughts, there is always help available.
The 22-minute film includes expert commentaries from North Wales consultant liaison psychiatrist Alys Cole-King and Edinburgh professor of health policy research Stephen Platt.
Dr Cole-King said the underlying reasons for depression were different for each person, but that however bad someone felt there was always hope of recovery.
‘Sometimes it may be due to a mental illness or triggered by things like the loss of a relationship, the loss of support, physical illness, financial worries, appearing in court or the death of a loved one. All these are types of event that any of us can and do experience dur...
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