When Bill Blaikie was deployed to Afghanistan in 2004, it was the pinnacle of his military career.
Just eight years later, after living through six months in the war-torn nation, he was in an intensive care unit with a 20 percent chance of survival, after a second suicide attempt.
Mr Blaikie credits his survival to the fact his wife came home and found him, and that their next-door neighbour was a firefighter, trained in first aid.
“I was so disassociated with my family, not happy in life or anything like that, that I attempted suicide twice.”