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cape mental health

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The Cape Mental Health team.
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Cape Mental Health advocates for community empowerment during Psychosocial Disability Awareness Month

How is Cape Mental Health transforming lives this Psychosocial Disability Awareness Month? Discover their advocacy for dignity, recovery, and social inclusion through…

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
According to the South African Depression and Anxiety Group (Sadag), there are 23 known cases of suicide in South Africa every day, and for every person that commits suicide, 10 have attempted it. Picture Thys Dullaart/African News Agency(ANA)
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Suicide: breaking the silence can save a life

“I wanted to give up and I wanted everything just to come to an end. It’s all I could think of.” These are the words of a single mother of one from Observatory, who was on the…

  • Tauriq Hassen
6 min read