Public's attitude to depression needs to change

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Public's attitude to depression needs to change: ... colleagues that they suffered from depression? Thankfully, David Walliams did not manage to take his own life, but many people do: there were 552 deaths by suicide in Ireland in 2009. How high must suicide figures go before depression is destigmatised?

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