A young Scots father who took his own life after a secret mental health battle has inspired his devastated family to try to help others that are struggling in silence. Dad-of-one Scott Taylor tragically committed suicide in March this year despite appearing to be a ‘happy-go-lucky chappie’ who was the ‘life and soul of the party’.
The 37-year-old’s aunt, Jackie Walls, has now set up a charity called Tartan Talkers, which aims to help raise awareness and prevent male suicide in Scotland. She told the Daily Record how she will forever be haunted by the noise her sister made when discovering that Scott, from Cowdenbeath, Fife, had taken his own life.
And she’s shared her fears that the number of people affected by mental health will continue to soar due to the current cost-of-living crisis. She said: “The thing that really got to me was the sound my sister made after Scott took his own life. If you’ve ever heard a wounded animal that’s really in pain, they let out this howl.
