Scots student on trauma of finding document with mum's darkest thoughts days after her suicide
dailyrecord.co.ukA Scots student whose mother committed suicide ' completely out of the blue' has spoken of the heartache of finding a secret document detailing her darkest thoughts.
Rachael Turner was just 16 when her mum, Gail, passed away on July 22, 2015. The marketing student found her 54-year-old mum at the bottom of their garden. 'Bubbly' Gail's death sent shockwaves through the local community – Muir of Ord, near Dingwall in the Highlands.Rachael, her brother, Ross and dad George, now 22, 27 and 67 respectively, 'did not see it coming'.But days after Gail's passing they found a secret document that revealed her deepest emotions.In a bid to offer solace to other young Scots who lose a parent to suicide, Rachael opened up about her family's trauma and maintains 'there is hope'.The inspirational student told the Record: "My mum was pure sunshine.
She was so bubbly, you found her loud laugh funnier than the joke itself. She had no history of mental health issues whatsoever."She was a dedicated Health and Food Technology teacher at my high school.
My mum cared deeply for students who struggled academically."We did not see this coming, that's what we struggled with the most; there was no way of helping her, we had no idea what was going on."Rachael returned from a month-long volunteering trip to Tanzania in July 2015.Elated Gail and George had recently waved Ross off to university.Two days later, Rachel and George found Gail's body and were left utterly devastated."We desperately looked for answers," Rachael added."The day mum died, I turned her room upside down looking for a note."A few days later, we found a document that was well-hidden on her laptop."On it she wrote about suicidal thoughts, the stresses of her job and her
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