12 men in the UK
will commit suicide today.
Meet a man with depression.
"
I asked him
how people like me
could have been a better friend
on his darkest days.
He said that
saying the wrong thing would have
been better than saying nothing.
….. recalling a day when his father
found him weeping for no apparent reason,
gathered him in a hug,
and told him he had to pull himself together.
The words were wrong,
but the embrace
was more powerful than the words.
"
from an interview by Martin Wroe.
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