“Talk to someone. If not your parents to a friend. There are numbers you can call. Or come to church — we will listen to you. But you have to talk to someone about how you feel. Suicide is not the solution.” So said retired police detective Mike Grobler in a passionate plea to young people. In a podcast interview with Ethan Black of Kingfisher FM he shared about his painful 5-year struggle with God after his 16-year-old daughter took her life with his service pistol. Regretting that he had been too busy with police work to listen to his daughter, he called on parents to spend time with their children — “even if it is only 20 minutes, 10 minutes a night”. He said parents must be sufficiently in touch with their children to be able to recognise when they are experiencing mental struggles — “Otherwise you will walk the same road that I did.”
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