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My personal journey towards making zero suicide a reality

Before I lost my dear son Edward to suicide in 2015, like so many of us, I had never really thought much about mental health, mental illness and suicide.

Like most of the general population, if asked, I would probably have said that these were things which affected somebody else.

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