One former girlfriend of workaholic police chief Michael Todd described him as a man who hid his frequent depressive episodes behind a cheerful exterior.
Vincent Ma’s distraught father described how his son had broken contact with his family and friends, and stopped answering his phone. Mark Saunders’s mother said that he had ‘never spoken of any pressures or stresses’. He was married with an eight-year-old son.īehind each headline were men who chose not to share their anxieties, who bottled up their feelings and couldn’t ask for help. Then, most recently, in the wake of the City collapse, millionaire financier Kirk Stephenson apparently committed suicide in the path of a train at Taplow railway station in Berkshire.
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In April, TV presenter Mark Speight hanged himself while reeling from the death of his fiancée. At his inquest, it was confirmed that he had been juggling a complicated love life and had suffered bouts of depression (although there was insufficient evidence to support a suicide verdict). Two months later, Manchester police chief Michael Todd, 50, was found jacketless in the snow on a Welsh mountain. Vincent Ma, 33, leapt 100 feet from the balcony of a luxury apartment in London's Canary Wharf.
Within days, it had turned into a suspected case of ‘suicide by cop’, one of several tragedies involving high-achieving men He also allegedly had ‘drink issues’ and was dealing with a stressful property dispute. It’s been claimed the couple were trying for a baby and Mark had doubts over his fertility.
Mark, 32, and his wife had apparently been heard arguing. When Mark Saunders was shot dead under siege in his Chelsea home on a sunnyĪnd successful barrister, with a rich, successful barrister wife, to shut himself in his £2.2 million flat and shoot at neighbours and police?īefore too long, though, a different picture of Mark Saunders emerged – a man under pressure, struggling to cope. It’s time for men to stop clamming up in a crisis The male suicide rate is now up to four times higher than that of women.
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