A hypnotherapist who tried to end his life by overdosing on tablets is set to help other men with suicidal thoughts by offering free hypnosis sessions.
Paul Bishoprick, 35, fell into a deep depression after his wife left him unexpectedly in 2013.
"It came out of nowhere," he said. "I thought everything was going great but one day I came in from work and she said she didn't love me and left me.
"That was a shock to the system and I crumbled. By October I had lost my day job. I did nothing, I just stayed at home on the couch and cried."
With his life at an all-time low, the father-of-two took copious amounts of Ibuprofen and Paracetamol with red wine in a bid to end his life but was saved on both occasions by family members.
Mr Bishoprick then decided to dig himself out of his depression and after meeting somebody else he came across an advert on Facebook which was offering free hypnotherapy training.
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"I was looking for jobs and I was just going through the job page on Facebook when I saw a free weekend in hypnotherapy training and I just scrolled past it," he said.
"Three days later I was in bed. It was 3am, my eyes pinged open and I called the number on the advert."
Within a week, Mr Bishoprick was sat in a classroom learning how to be a hypnotherapist and 10 months later in October 2015, he was fully qualified.
After quitting his main job in August last year, Mr Bishoprick became a full-time hypnotherapist and set up his own business stationed across three offices in Hull.
So far, he has had the most amount of success in helping people lose weight, but he wants to help men who are on the brink of suicide as part of a national campaign called "Men's Suicide Prevention with Hypnosis Week."
The initiative is encouraging hypnotherapists and other mind therapy practitioners around the globe to offer free one-to-one or group treatment sessions to men suffering from extreme stress, PTSD, anxiety and other issues which are making them suicidal.
According to the campaign, figures show that around 76 per cent of reported suicides each year are men. It is thought this is because they are far less likely to go and seek help from a professional.
Mr Bishoprick's sessions usually cost £60 an hour but he will be tapping into the subconscious free of charge to help those in need.
"I wouldn't do this kind of work if I didn't think that it worked and made a difference," he said. "The simple fact is that I am here to help them. I am here if they want to come and talk to me and I will readily listen to what they've got to say.
"There are things I can do which can help them cope with how they are feeling.
"If there are men out there who are struggling and having difficulties and are at the point where they think they've got to take their own life then I want to reassure them that there are ways round this.
"I've been through what they've been through. I've been at the point where I didn't think I could carry on but it was my two children and my family that kept me going."
The free sessions will be held from 10am to 4pm at Club Vega on Witham on April 24, The Fairfax Suite in The Good Fellowship Inn on Cottingham Road on April 26 and at Jen's Pick Me Up down Posterngate on April 28.
For more information and to get in touch with Mr Bishoprick about the sessions, click here.
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April 6, 2017 at 01:17AM
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