Male suicide: 'A difficult and dark place... I felt a burden to those around me'
The number of male mental health patients in the UK who die by suicide has risen by almost a third in the last decade, new research suggests.
The biggest increases were in men aged 45 to 54, where the number of deaths since 2006 rose by 73%, the University of Manchester report said.
The Victoria Derbyshire programme heard from people who had reached the point of taking their own lives and by those affected by suicide.
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