The heartbroken sister of a man who tragically took his own life last year has embarked on a global journey in his memory.
Nina couldn't help but chuckle at an endearing memory, recalling: "He was also daft as a brush. I remember once, my mum and dad were on holiday, and he rang me and he said, Nina, Nina, you'll have to come home, I'm starving, they've not left me any food in the fridge. I said, Will, there's so much food in the freezer. And he said, it was all out of date, so I've thrown it away.
"He had made some comments to his friends at the gym. And they'd said, are you alright Will? And he'd gone 'yeah, yeah, I'm alright, I'm alright now. I'm okay now'." She said: "I'm still in shock to be honest. That's the only way I can speak about it because I don't actually still believe that it's happened, if that makes sense."
"If I would have known what to say, what to recognise, what to look out for, the places he could have got help, although that's not always an easy thing getting help with the state of the system at the moment. It was incredibly difficult. Because it was a Masters in mental health, it did feel like all of it was completely personal and completely pertinent to Will and what had happened.
Nina developed and delivered self-harm and suicide prevention workshops to female pupils, aged 14 – 16, all of whom had experience of self-harm or suicidal behaviour. She is currently in discussions with Edge Hill about how they can use the findings from the fellowship to enhance the university's teacher training education.
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