Devastated mum-of-two reveals husband’s suicide note told her what to do next

A GRIEVING mum-of-two revealed her husband's suicide note which gave her inspiration to change the lives of others.

Emma Picton Jones, 27, broke down in tears after reading her partner's last letter after a builder discovered his body in a vacant house.

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Emma's beloved husband Dan, and agricultural contractor, had battled mental health issues for years.

He wrote: "You couldn't help me, but you could help someone else."

She told BirminghamLive that in that morning she realised: "I can do that."

Dan had fought his anxiety and depression for years, but in July 2016, he could no longer cope with his illness and drove to his childhood home.

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Suspecting Dan had left the home in Pembrokeshire, Emma said she had a 'gut feeling' he had gone to his mum and dad's house.

Panicking, she drove to the house but found two police cars outside.

She knew exactly what had happened.

According to Emma, their relationship had been full of ups and downs, but Dan’s ups and downs were more dramatic.

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He’d been struggling with his mental health, especially anxiety and depression, for a long time and had first approached a doctor for help at 21 - long before he met Emma.

The pair had met at a rugby tournament and swapped numbers, this was the start of their relationship that would lead to marriage and two children - Mali and Trystan.

“Looking back and reflecting on it all, it was always an issue," Emma says.

“I was constantly overcompensating to try to avoid anything being any worse than it was - that went on for a long time."

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Emma set up her own mental health charity specifically for farmers and named it DPJ foundation. With donations and the funeral collection, it opened its bank account with £8,000.

The charity's aims are to get people involved in agricultural talking about mental health.

Farming has a disproportionately high suicide rate. Time to Change Wales says at least one farmer with a mental health problem commits suicide each week in the UK.