Heartbreaking Letters Reveal The Tragic End Of This Father's Battle With PTSD

In 2013, 44-year-old Detective Sergeant Ashley Bryant sent handwritten letters to his children explaining that he wouldn't be home for Christmas before taking his own life on December 16 that year. The father of three from New South Wales, Australia, had been dealing with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) brought on by working for years as a homicide detective when he jumped to his death in Border National Park. Constantly being exposed to horrific crime scenes and cases on the job, he just couldn't cope with his depression and turned to alcohol at first, then suicide. Ashley had been a...

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