{"id":294221,"date":"2025-11-19T22:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/294221\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T22:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:58:13","slug":"mp-makes-candid-mental-health-admission-after-almost-losing-wife-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/294221\/","title":{"rendered":"MP makes candid mental health admission after almost losing wife | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are experiencing feelings of distress and isolation, or are struggling to cope, The Samaritans offer support; you can speak to someone for free over the phone, in confidence, on 116 123 (UK and ROI), email <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/news\/mailto:jo@samaritans.org\">jo@samaritans.org<\/a>, or visit the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samaritans.org\/\">Samaritans website<\/a> to find details of your nearest branch.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Charters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/labour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Labour<\/a> MP for York Outer, made a candid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/mental-health\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mental health<\/a> admission during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/pmqs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prime Minister&#8217;s Questions<\/a> (PMQs) to mark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/keir-starmer-government-prime-minister-adolescence-samaritans-b2868026.html\" title=\"Starmer tells son how \u2018proud\u2019 he is of him but acknowledges pressure he faces\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">International Men&#8217;s Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about his own challenges in the House of Commons on Wednesday (19 November), Mr Charters opened up on a &#8220;dark cloud&#8221; settling over him after almost losing his wife during the birth of his first child.<\/p>\n<p>Thanking him for his honesty, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/budget-inflation-keir-starmer-rachel-reeves-pmqs-live-updates-b2868008.html\" title=\"Starmer refuses to rule out freezing income tax thresholds in Budget - live updates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sir Keir Starmer<\/a> highlighted his government\u2019s new men&#8217;s health strategy &#8220;to tackle challenges that disproportionately affect men&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you are experiencing feelings of distress and isolation, or are struggling to cope, The Samaritans offer support;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-294221","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\/294221","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=294221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}