EU moves to tackle suicide and mental illness

SOME 58,000 EU citizens commit suicide every year but little is being done to tackle mental illness.

That is according to EU Parliament members. Now the EU is developing a policy on how to tackle mental illness which they hope will lead to a decrease in suicides and the number of people suffering depression.

Described as Europe’s unseen killer, 28% of people suffer some kind of mental illness each year; 58,000 commit suicide and over half a million attempt to take their own lives.