A Lanarkshire debt charity has warned the cost of living crisis is costing lives as increasing financial pressure is impacting mental health.
As the National Records of Scotland released its annual update on suicide statistics for 2021 this week, East Kilbride-based Christians Against Poverty (CAP) Scotland tragically found over a third (36 per cent) of new CAP clients said they had either considered or attempted suicide as a way of out debt.
The charity highlight that people living in Scotland’s most deprived areas remain more than three times as likely to die by suicide than those living in the least deprived areas - almost two thirds of CAP clients live in these communities.
