{"id":191131,"date":"2025-10-10T19:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/191131\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:10:07","slug":"bereaved-mums-message-on-world-mental-health-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/191131\/","title":{"rendered":"Bereaved mum&#8217;s message on World Mental Health Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Max Turton died on 28 August last year, just a few days after picking up his GCSE results. He was 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Katie Turton, who lives in Telford, said on Friday, World Mental Health Day: &#8220;Max was incredibly sensitive and independent and I think he internalised his feelings and did not want to be a burden on anyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since Max&#8217;s death, friends and family have raised about \u00a3100,000 for charity in his memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mother of a teenager who took his own life after not getting the exam grades he wanted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-191131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}