Health in society - Mental health awareness

MORE than 9,000 people were reported missing here last year but thankfully, most were found safe and well.

Among them there will have been rebellious teens, disorientated drunks, rowing spouses, patients whose medication or the lack of it left them confused, and all sorts of other people who wandered off temporarily without realising the panic they’d leave behind them.

But there were also people who felt they had no choice but to vanish, not just from their daily lives, but from life itself, and they became another one of our tragic suicide statistics.