Personal trainer teams with man he saved from suicide to teach schoolchildren about mental health

Surbiton.com: January 14, 2016 - 6:25am

A personal trainer from Berrylands is launching a mental health initiative for schools alongside the man he saved from suicide.

It will mark the eight-year anniversary of the moment Neil Laybourn stopped as Jonny Benjamin prepared to take his life on Waterloo Bridge in 2008.
He talked Mr Benjamin down and the pair have since become friends, and now campaigners.

The 33-year-old Berrylands man, who runs a gym in central London, was tracked down six years later after a campaign to find him exploded online.
Their initiative, Think Well, includes workshops for children and confronts taboos surrounding mental health. It launched on January 13.
Mr Benjamin was 20 at the time he almost took his life. He has a form of schizophrenia and also now works with Rethink Mental Illness, visiting prisons, schools and hospitals.

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