Alex George ‘Felt Tremendous Guilt’ After Brother’s Tragic Death
By Cara Dudgeon
3 years ago
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'That's the hard thing. I felt tremendous guilt instantly.
'I am a doctor, I'm an older brother, I always wanted to protect and look after him. What could I have done differently?
'I'm supposed to be a mental health advocate and all the work I've done around it. It was anguish, it was the worst thing'.
'Mental health and physical health, they're akin. Just the same way you can have a heart attack and pass away, mental health is just the same.
'It is an illness. That's why it's so important we treat it like that and realise it... I wanted to say 'he's passed away from mental health'.
'I wanted to be open about that, because there's nothing to be ashamed of. It is an illness like anything else'.
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'I was at a restaurant when I found out, I went out for some food with my friends. I had a phone call from my dad.
'I could tell from the call, I said "What's happened? Who's passed away?" You could tell something bad had happened. When he said it was Llyr, the world kind of ended in that sense. The world came down under my shoulders.
'My little brother Elliott picked me up, we drove back to Wales... We sat in silence for five hours. Each of us crying, shouting, just letting out all this anguish I guess.
'It was weird, I went into different parts of my mind in that journey home, really dark parts of my mind, to be honest. Disbelief - I couldn't believe this had happened'.
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