Last week a childhood friend of my wife’s committed suicide, one month before his 60th birthday. A highly respected and greatly liked doctor, most of his friends did not know of his depression.
He is the second friend of our age to take this drastic step in the past 12 months. Sadly they join the seven Australians who every day ‘successfully’ take the same decision. Suicide is the leading cause of death in this country for people aged 15 to 44.
Every year, around 4 million Australians suffer some form of mental health issue, making it the third largest chronic disease in the country, only behind cancer and cardiovascular disease.
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