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Giuffre described the aftermath of her abuse in the posthumous book Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir Of Surviving Abuse And Fighting For Justice

Writer’s memoirs about living with depression became an international success and helped open public discussion on mental health

Non-communicable diseases like heart ailments, stroke and diabetes now account for nearly two-thirds of world’s total mortality and morbidity

COMMENT: The idea that people are going out of their way to create synthetic, digitised images of dead people is not only ghastly – it’s morally bankrupt, says Emma Clarke

White said her father died after ‘living with a dark cloud’ over his head that he ‘couldn’t lift’

The Prince of Wales had a moving conversation with campaigner Rhian Mannings for World Mental Health Day

‘Hiding emotions and the true depth of our feelings — hurt, pain, shock, grief etc — helps no-one,’ White, 45, wrote in a devastating post

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