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    Voices: Alastair Campbell: I’ve been close to suicide, and it’s not something to face alone

    by Alastair Campbell May 13, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: ITV

    Suicide is the ultimate in mental illness, the point at which the feelings we struggle with become so overwhelming as to be unbearable, and death becomes preferable to life. I have been close – but never taken that final step.

    Every morning, I place myself on a “one-to-10” mental health scale. As one is manic and 10 I want to be somewhere in the middle. I have experienced one just once (and I never want to go there again), and I have experienced nine.

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