In 1994, I enrolled in Queen's University Belfast to do a PhD on the psychophysiological aspects of depression. That summer, out of the blue, I got a call from the person who would turn out to be my PhD supervisor, to tell me there was an opportunity to do a PhD on suicide.
After studying psychology and doing my undergraduate dissertation on depression, it seemed like an obvious step. When I started that research, I hadn't been directly touched by suicide.
Sadly, that person, my PhD supervisor - the person without whom I wouldn't be doing the work I do today - took his own life some years later. I still ask myself - almost every day - why he asked me to research this subject.
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