Mental health: Mum’s horse statue trek after daughter’s suicide

Papyrus says suicide is the largest cause of UK deaths in under-35s.

Emma would like schools to talk more about mental health and where to get support.

“Why aren’t we doing something about it to educate them, to let them know how and where to get help and to let them know it’s ok to feel low and have low mental wellbeing and its ok to ask for help?” she said.

“I get young people inboxing me to say how they’re struggling with their mental health and messages come through the website to say they’re struggling, and although I’d love to help them and hug them and say everything is going to be all right, I can only pinpoint them to the support they might need and the charities that might be useful.”

“It’s heartbreaking, I just feel that I just can’t understand how there’s so many young people out there struggling and I panic a lot these days that other people are going to go and take their own lives like Brodie did.”

She aims to walk through central London on 13 December, when it will be particularly busy with Christmas shoppers.

“So I’m really hoping by that point people will know that I’m coming, and know why I’m walking and know what Miles is all about.”

She thinks Brodie would be impressed by what she’s doing.

“I think she’d say, ‘You’re mad Mum,’ but I think she’d be proud of me – I hope she would.

“People keep telling me how proud she’d be of me. I really hope she would be.”

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