The mother of a teenager who took his own life after not getting the exam grades he wanted has urged other young people to talk about their worries.<\/p>\n
Max Turton died on 28 August last year, just a few days after picking up his GCSE results. He was 16.<\/p>\n
Katie Turton, who lives in Telford, said on Friday, World Mental Health Day: “Max was incredibly sensitive and independent and I think he internalised his feelings and did not want to be a burden on anyone.”<\/p>\n
Since Max’s death, friends and family have raised about \u00a3100,000 for charity in his memory.<\/p>\n
Mrs Turton said she wanted other teenagers to speak to someone if they were feeling low.<\/p>\n
She described her son as “kind, very funny and genuine,” adding he felt he had failed in his exam results.<\/p>\n
She said: “There is a great pressure on children now to achieve high grades and I don’t believe that should be the case.”<\/p>\n
Family and friends have supported Mrs Turton and her husband Chris in raising money for the suicide prevention charity Papyrus.<\/p>\n
Mrs Turton’s own fundraising efforts have included an abseil down the side of Liverpool’s Anfield stadium on what would have been Max’s 17th birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mother of a teenager who took his own life after not getting the exam grades he wanted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-204777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}