Meet the men casting a light on the dark shadow of male suicide, one conversation at a time.
Alex, Tommie and Chris think talking to people can help prevent suicide
"They look at your Instagram and think it is all parties and unicorns but nobody's actual life is always like that." Working at the fashionable Hard Grind barbers in Dundee, a tattoo-heavy totem of the city's renaissance, Tommie and his team make it known to their clients that they're there to listen and cut hair - in that order.
"It's different to in the pub with their mates, where if they want to open up about something there is a possibility of ridicule, even if that is just how your pals deal with everything." "You get a lot of them saying I want to share something but I don't know what it is, and that is fine. It tends to come with time and confidence."Alex and Adam help run a string of community-based clubs too and they say the only difference between the two is the bars on the windows.
Lindsay, who served with the Black Watch and the Special Forces, was sent to Perth prison earlier this year after a drink-fuelled catalogue of crime, which included attacking seven police officers. "It is such a release," he says."The people around you might have different stories but it is the same feelings or doubts."To hear that come out of someone else's mouth is powerful, you know it is not just you."Reverend Chris Blackshaw's role in the farming community is one of five 'pioneer posts' being piloted by the Church of Scotland
The 58-year-old farmer spent the first half of his life as a police officer in Derbyshire in what he says turned out to be a great training for this gig.
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