Please sign the petition below and be one more voice for support in the fight for more mental health resources in NI.

Over the weekend yet another local family were plunged into darkness after a young man tragically took his own life. No words of sympathy will help ease their grief or numb the pain but his family and friends remain in all of our thoughts at this hugely difficult time.
 

Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement more people have taken their own life here that died as victims of the entire Troubles. That is a damming statistic and is further evidence of the huge issues of mental health here in Northern Ireland. 

Northern Ireland has the worst rate of Mental Health problems in Western Europe and the highest suicide rate in the U.K. Quite simply we do no where near enough to help people suffering with poor mental health or to tackle many of the underlying causes.

As a society we must face up to the fact that mental health is as important as physical health. There is no quick fix but I do fully support the aims of the petition below, to see more money directed towards addressing immediate pressures within mental health alongside calls for specialist suicide crisis centres and a specialist mental health hub.

As politicians we have a duty to set aside our differences, stop the petty point scoring and stand united in the fight for the things that really matter. Quite simply there is a Mental Health Crisis in Northern Ireland and we must do whatever we can to begin dealing with it. How many more families have to suffer before we stand up and act?


Please sign the petition below and be one more voice for support in the fight for more mental health resources in NI.

https://www.change.org/p/department-of-health-northern-ireland-open-safe-spaces-in-ni-suicide-crisis-centres-for-suicidal-patients-people-in-distress?recruiter=72052617&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share_email_responsive&utm_term=autopublish

Thank you.
JS