Domestic Abuse, Coercive Control, and It’s impact on Mental Health and Suicide

The OLLIE Foundation’s talk “Domestic Abuse, Coercive Control, and It’s impact on Mental Health and Suicide” with Bal Kaur Howard.

A 2018 study by the University of Warwick, focusing on more than 3,500 women supported by domestic abuse charity Refuge, uncovered that almost a quarter (24%) of women supported by the charity had felt suicidal at one time or another. A staggering 83% reported feelings of hopelessness and despair, key symptoms of suicidal ideation. The intention of this talk was to take a deeper look at why this might be so we can collectively do all we can to reduce that possibility.

In Bal’s words ‘I refuse to take my past into the future and regard myself to be an empowered survivor- my darkest past is the greatest possession I have’.

Hosted by The OLLIE Foundation – https://theolliefoundation.org/