An interesting article on Yahoo Lifestyle about Clare Francis whose husband committed suicide - http://www.uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/.
Men and suicide seems to have been in the media even more in the last few months - perhaps because of well-known people deciding to take their own lives.
In the above mentioned article the man concerned experienced a number of years with depression before he took his own life. I am sure whether he sought professional help but some men can find it difficult to ask for help, seeing it as a sign of weakness and choose to either "down their sorrows" in alcohol or other addictions. This does not need to happen. Everybody has emotions and running away from them will only mean they build up inside and then hit you at some unexpected time. People can become stronger by, what I call, meeting their emotions and not being afraid of them.
Once we stop avoiding, there is hope for change.
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