When Kevin Braddock hit rock-bottom, he had every intention of killing himself. He recounts what happened next – and reveals why so few men ask for help
‘We fall apart alone, but we heal together’: Kevin Braddock.
Photograph: Phil Fisk for the Observer
It was a Monday when Robin Williams killed himself three years ago – Monday 11 August 2014. His death was shocking even if in hindsight it shouldn’t have been a surprise that the world’s funniest man might also be the most sorrowful, too – a person despairing to the point of ending it all.
It’s a date I remember well, because I’d spent the previous day trying to do the same thing. I was in the psychiatric ward of the Berlin hospital which I’d been manhandled into by friends the day before, and I was waiting to see the doctor who’d asked me to promise that I wouldn’t kill myself.
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