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CAMBRIDGESHIRE,

PETERBOROUGH AND

SOUTH LINCOLNSHIRE

(CPSL) MIND

One conversation in are suicidal and promote our online
Fenland can save a life workshops and talks. We would love to
welcome any local resident to join us.

Safety warning - Please consider your Our online STOP Suicide open courses are
own emotional wellbeing before reading free to attend for anyone living or working
this article. If you have been affected by within Cambridgeshire or Peterborough.
suicide in any way, you may find the content One young mother we recently supported,
difficult. Some sources of support are given told us that after struggling to bond
below. with her first child, and following health
problems in her second pregnancy, she
Suicidal thoughts are a common response began to experience increased anxiety
to challenges in life. and suicidal thoughts. Many of her loved
STOP Suicide is a local suicide prevention ones had no idea she felt suicidal. “After a
campaign, run by Cambridgeshire, while I told my husband”, she said “but it
Peterborough and South Lincolnshire, was hard to admit things were that bad”.
(CPSL) Mind. The three-hour workshops will equip
In 2023 the Office for National Statistics you with the knowledge to spot warning
published data which stated 5,656 signs, ask directly about suicide, support
suicides were registered in England. At
CPSL Mind, we are very concerned that
suicide rates in Fenland are especially
high. Between 2021 and 2023, Fenland
experienced 13.3 suicides per 100,000
people, compared with the national
average of 11.2 per 100,000 people and
the rest of Cambridgeshire’s average of
10.4 per 100,000.
We are therefore working to raise
awareness within the Fenland District
of the need to support those who

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