In January 2013, 25-year-old Chris Wood, from Cardiff, killed himself. He had been suffering from mental health problems for several years. An independent report says his death could have been prevented had he received the care he needed. Here, his mother talks about life with her 'lovely son' and her family's fight to find out why more was not done to help him. Debbie Wood spends her Saturday nights reliving the horror of 26 January 2013 - the night her youngest son Chris died. She agonises about how things might have been different had she picked up the phone and spoken to him. But social workers had advised her not to text and call him too often when he was out, so she resisted the urge....
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