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Thursday, April 15th, 2010
The country faces a “potential mental health timebomb” when veterans return to civilian life, shadow Defence Secretary Liam Fox has warned.
Representatives from the three main parties took part in a defence debate before an invited audience at the National Army Museum in London on Tuesday evening.
Mr Fox said the fact more veterans of the Falklands War committed suicide than died in the conflict showed the potential impact of war on serving soldiers.
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
Almost a fifth of service personnel have drinking problems while young soldiers who leave the Armed Forces are three times more likely to kill themselves than civilians, academic studies show.
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
With London Fashion Week in full swing, the Jed Foundation and actress Heather Matarazzo look to the tragedy of the designer’s death as a teachable moment — to shed light on suicide’s warning signs, and ways to intervene.
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
An area teen who took his own life may have been victimized by bullies, say family, friends and members of Facebook groups dedicated to his memory.
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
THE number of deaths by suicide has risen in direct relation to the economic recession.
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Young soldiers returning from Afghanistan are up to three times more likely to kill themselves than civilians of the same age, according to the Mental Health Foundation.
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Last week’s suicide of the German goalkeeper Robert Enke revealed more than the terrible news of one man’s death, the cruelty of depression and the pressures on sportsmen to protect the public’s idealised view of them; it also exposed the ongoing shame and stigma of mental illness.
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
A Welsh suicide prevention plan has been updated to take account of the recession and the increased risk of people killing themselves if they lose their jobs, the Welsh Assembly has said.
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
MORE than one person a day killed themselves in the first three months of 2009.
Despite a decline in suicides in recent years, official figures released today revealed 106 people took their life between January and March — a 43pc rise.
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
WATERLOO – As the recession takes its toll on jobs, it will also take a toll on the mental health and productivity of the nation, says the head of federal non-profit corporation that is trying to put mental health issues on the business agenda of workplaces.
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