A leading mental health campaigner, who is helping the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge learn more about issues surrounding suicide, has told Sky News there needs to be more positive role models for those facing dark times in their lives.
William and Kate will carry out a series of engagements in London today aimed at breaking down the stigma around suicide.
They will meet Jonny Benjamin, who in 2008 contemplated taking his own life until a man he had never met before found him on Waterloo Bridge in central London.
He now talks about his experience in schools, offices and prisons.
Describing how the stranger had helped him, he told Sky News: "He said, 'Look mate, I believe you'll get better, you'll get through this'.
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"When you're in a place that you want to end your life, you've got no hope left and you've got no belief left in yourself, so for this stranger to come and put his belief in me, his faith in me, it changed what I was about to do. I didn't jump."
Mr Benjamin launched a social media campaign called #FindMike so he could thank the man who helped him.
It succeeded and he was reunited with not a Mike, but Neil Laybourn.
Mr Benjamin believes if he had received help earlier in life he would not have reached crisis point.
He added: "People stand up and say 'I beat cancer' and they're not afraid to say that, but people are afraid to say 'I've got mental health issues' and that's what really needs to change."
For the Duke and Duchess and Prince Harry, mental health has become a major focus of their charity work.
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Prince William especially wanted to highlight the alarming numbers of young men between 15 and 35 years old who end their own lives.
While working as a pilot for the East Anglian Air Ambulance, he has been involved in a number of callouts to young men who have attempted suicide.
On average 17 people a day in the UK take their own life.
Brian Dow, from the charity Rethink Mental Illness, says it is a problem we can no longer ignore.
"We need to make sure people are able to talk, reduce the means of suicide, making it less possible to take your own life, but also giving support to families who have been through it also makes a very big difference as well."
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