Staff at new Pieta House centres “flat out” with suicidal and self-harming clients
Psychologist Joan Freeman also said there had been a marked increase in the number of people with mortgages attending its services, the majority of whom were men.
However, 25% of all people attending Pieta House services are aged under 18, with Ms Freeman claiming that awareness campaigns need to focus more on people around a young person with suicidal thoughts rather than focusing primarily on the young person.
