This week we had World Suicide Prevention Day and one key message that has been popularised is: “It’s ok not to feel ok; and it’s absolutely okay to ask for help.”

Health care professionals must make better use of community-based, self-help groups for patients with mental health issues, according to the mental health organisation GROW.

PEOPLE calling the HSE South’s farm and rural stress helpline are lonely and depressed, are suffering abuse or have specific problems around farming and inheritance.