{"id":54351,"date":"2025-08-08T11:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54351\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T11:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:18:06","slug":"woman-backs-mental-health-campaign-on-itchen-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54351\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman backs mental health campaign on Itchen Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Beth, who did not want the Echo to publish her full name, was contemplating taking her own life when she met Danny Carter who managed to talk her down.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She is speaking out after\u00a0Danny leapt into action on the evening of\u00a0Thursday, July 31,\u00a0pulling a teenager down the railings of the Itchen Bridge and saving her life.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 35-year-old is in the middle of launching his own mental health support initiative Coffee Mate.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Danny said he is \u201cjust waiting for a signature on the dotted line\u201d so he can set up his mobile coffee hub to support people like Beth and the girl he saved last week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Beth said the support soon to be offered by volunteers at Coffee Mate is desperately needed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Beth outside the Civic Centre, Southampton \" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Beth outside the Civic Centre, Southampton (Image: Newsquest) She said: \u201cIt is one thing to be saved from the bridge, but nobody talks about what happens after.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cYou are back to square one, stuck in your own head again as there is nowhere to go after you have spent those 30 minutes with the emergency services.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Beth is keen to help and volunteer with Danny in the future, whether that is patrolling the bridge or making coffees in the mobile coffee shop.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The mobile unit will be set up on one side of the bridge, and moved regularly by Danny and his team.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/news\/25356971.southampton-campaigner-rescues-woman-itchen-bridge\/?rel=cl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Campaigner dressed as cone rescues teenager from Itchen Bridge<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The aim is to &#8220;keep the conversation and support&#8221; flowing for those who need it.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She said: \u201cWhen I was on the Itchen Bridge, I did not think I was going to come down \u2013 I would have gone over the side.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cPeople listen but they do not hear me.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI would be doing everything in my power not to be here if it wasn\u2019t for Danny.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Danny Carter outside the Civic Centre, Southampton \" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Danny Carter outside the Civic Centre, Southampton (Image: Newsquest) Danny said: \u201cWe are doing what should have been done a long time ago.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI am going to keep going until the council install the safety railings on the bridge, and until I can get my mobile unit in place.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>    Contact Jo@samaritans.org or call 116 123 for support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beth, who did not want the Echo to publish her full name, was contemplating taking her own life&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-54351","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\/54351","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=54351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}