After years of decline, suicide rates are rising - especially among women. In 2023 in England and Wales, they reached levels not seen since 1999. Some 6,069 suicides were registered in the two nations in 2023, up from 5,642 in 2022.
Emma Mills-Sheffield knows all too well the grief that suicide brings. Her sister Lou took her own life. And so too did their maternal grandmother. Emma's father tried too. 'The cycle of grief was immense and deep,' she explains as we sit and talk in her Hove home. 'It's not straightforward when someone takes their own life; the anger, the disbelief, the constant searching. There must have been evidence. There must have been something we could have done.
I'm in that space and there really is very little time and space for self-care.' More attempts 'than I have been able to count', survivor says Olivia-Louise Hamilton has been trying to take her own life since she was 12 years old. She had a difficult childhood and battled for years with her poor mental health. She is 29 now and the dark winter months are challenging.
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