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At the bottom of the Welsh garden of The Family there are tributes to Lloyd , who took his life and Left Behind his mother, father and Two Brothers

the suicide in Scotland in a five-year high, with Three Times more Men than women, the your life in The Last year. The families of two former industrial cities, Motherwell and Wishaw, to talk about the loss of brothers, sons and partners.

It was a stormy February afternoon, when Yvonne Welsh lock the door to your Motherwell home. She had gone to run errands and the left had to play one of their Three Sons , Lloyd , play Video Games in his bedroom.

have been removed, for no More Than 40 Minutes , Yvonne, back to an unusually quiet house. "I shouted to Lloyd to that I got a McDonalds. I texted him. He did not answer. He always had his phone on him. I screamed at him. No Answer. "

moments later, she discovered that her son is Dead .

Lloyd Welsh Family try to remember him as the smiley Joker

The 22-year-old had his life in The Family home, but had No Warning and left no note.

Lloyd ' to remember s parents and her brothers trying to the smiling young man moved to play practical jokes, and not the young, would in Themselves in The Last year of his life.

Yvonne says she sometimes feels angry and guilty, but mostly she feels sad that her son could not come to her. "Lloyd doesn't know what he has done to this Family ," she says.

death has a profound impact on Jordan, Lloyd 's 26-year-old brother. He is an outstanding player for The Local Amateur football team Thistle Motherwell, a Club , the affected by suicide.

'I know that he loved me,'

In the year 2017, Thistle player John Fowler killed himself. It is the beginning of a series of suicides was associated with The Team . In August of last year, The Team 's goalkeeper, Paul Gerard Aiton - or PG is, as he was known - killed at home.

If The Team picked up a trophy at the end of the season, they wore black armbands bearing his name. His Family - including a toddler, a subsidiary of PG would never meet, from watching from The Stands .

As Lloyd , PG gave No Warning . His mother, Catherine says she feels "angry, embarrassed and ashamed of myself for him", but she still loves him.

"I love him to pieces, it is unconditional. It is so hard to know that you are never going to see him again - ever. "

Paul Gerard Aiton partner of Naomi with the Faith, baby daughter, and his partner Naomi in the third month, he was never

to know If PG died, pregnant.

It was "brilliant" when Faith was born, says Naomi. She adds: "But at the same time, as I was in The Hospital , I thought, 'where is he?'.

"And His Family , you could see that you were visibly upset because everyone thinks "he should be here'. It makes you Question - especially if we are talking about The Future - it is the Question of whether it was all a lie, but I don't know that he was there. I know that he loved me, and he would never hurt me. "

Thistle Motherwell how the individual families, is dealing with the grief of suicide. Four Young Men connected to The Club have killed in The Past two years.

Margaret Mcmillan , the Secretary of The Club , said they felt that they had lost their sons. With so much sadness around The Team , there have been times she has wondered whether she give it up. "But I do not have with 18 other guys on this team that you give up. You simply have to make more, and try and do your best, and that's all we can do. "

Are you struggling to cope with it? to find

Call the Samaritans for free on 116 123 (UK and Ireland), or visit the, details of the nearest branch. Samaritans is available round-the-clock, Every Day of the year. The mind has a confidential telephone Hotline - 0300 123 339 (Monday-Friday 9am-6pm).

In Wishaw, three Miles East of Motherwell, it gave Daryl more deaths - O'rourke (17); Stephen Mearns (19); Callum Dunne and his friend Murray (both 16) are all killed in a seven-week period in the spring of 2018.

Some of the guys were Friends , others knew of each other and, as Lloyd and PG, none gave any warning.

they Left Behind families, Friends and in a community still wondering why so many Young Lives were lost in this way and So Close together.

"It felt As If it was a suicide, according to the other," said Shannon Brown , the sister of Callum.

On the 23. May 2018, a front side of the Wishaw Press featured three black-and-white photographs of Murray, Callum and Stephen, with the headline "Why?".

"enough is Enough", it declared. "We Need to talk about suicide. "

Motherwell and Wishaw seats in Scotland ' s central belt, 20 Miles East of Glasgow and 40 miles West of Edinburgh. They were cities built on a powerful industrial base of coal and steel. All of them are gone.

the ravenscraig steel plant, on The Border of the two cities, was once the busiest steel manufacturer in Western Europe with More Than 10,000 People . Now it is one of The Continent 's largest brownfield sites.

Lloyd 's brother, Jordan, plays home games for Thistle FC Motherwell in the new sports complex in the vicinity of the place, named after Raven Craig.

The area was in economic decline, and it carries the sign - shutters-shop-fronts-and-farmers-to buy shops with Gold .

BBCSuicides in Scotland

2011-2017

5,286 number of deaths

a total of 73%deaths self-Employed murder were male.

47% in the age group 35-54, if you have died

73% Single, widowed or divorced

67% at the time of the death

source: National Statistics

NHS research suggests, commit suicide Three Times more often among those living in economically deprived areas than in the least deprived, and more likely to occur in areas that have experienced deindustrialisation.

Three-quarters of People who kill Themselves in the UK are Men . In Scotland, the highest suicide rate in the UK, More Than half of those who died in this way in The Last year were under 45 years of age.

If Scotland reported a five-year high of 784 suicides in the year 2018, one of The Most striking aspects of the data, the 50% increase in The Number of deaths of persons under the age of 24.

studied 845 death records of People under 50 in Motherwell and Wishaw over a 10-year period from 2008 to 2018. There are at least 72 suspected murder itself.

The Number of People aged 25 and under who killed Themselves in these years remained low, with one or two per year. However, this number rose to seven in The Past year, the year in which Murray, Callum, Stephen and Daryl died.

"I felt guilt that I could not save my son,"

Anne Rowan ' s son, Christopher, killed himself in 2011. After struggling with his death for A Number of years, she founded a charity in his name, in Chris ' house.

in an old bank building at the foot of the main street, it is a crisis Center with a 24-hour direct support and advice to those At Risk , or bereaved by suicide, The First of its kind in Scotland.

According to Anne , it is an important service for People in Need in the area, which will help hundreds of People since it was founded in the year 2015. And it is getting busier. "In a month, we had 948 office hours," She Said .

"By Christopher to die, I felt like a failure, really overwhelming guilt that I could not save my son. I just knew that it had something to bridge The Gap of the People is not only about a recipe, and [the NHS] to wait. I knew that it had to be something immediate. "

Anne , whose son, Christopher, killed himself, was a consulting service to help those who feel suicidal

"The whole program" from Chris ' house is to prevent People dying by suicide, something Anne says, is "everyone's business". "You know, you're halfway there, if you come through the door," said Anne .

"I don't think we are going to blur or eliminate it. It would be nice if we could minimize them to The Point where the NHS can, with the suicide rate on your own that we don't Need charities, but I don't think we will ever see that. "

Some of these Young Men were in contact with psychiatric services before their death. Always, this cohort, come to us and ask for help, it remains a major challenge. If services don't know someone is in crisis, how can they help you?

After a 20-month period, where no one was in the place at all, to cut the pledging of suicides by 20% in the next four years.

awareness

The topic of suicide has honors slowly into The Local Consciousness - the reporting in The Press , The Charity football games and online.

wishaw, suicide prevention, mental health, motherwell

Source of news: bbc.com