UK: Male suicide tops mental health bill

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'Tackling the staggeringly high level of suicides among young men was top of the agenda at a conference on men’s mental health in Calcot yesterday.

Suicide is one of the biggest killers of young men, who are four times more likely to commit suicide than young women, and every minute there are two deaths by suicide in Britain.

In the past six years, 6,729 men aged between 15 and 34 have killed themselves in the UK.

Key speakers stressed the importance of raising awareness of the signs of depression in young men and highlighted a training programme for therapists at the Charlie Waller Institute at The University of Reading, which aims to help reduce the numbers of young men taking their own lives.'