A devastated sister whose brother took his own life said she feels "something could have been done" to save him.
Charlotte Rowbottom's younger brother Adam, 27, from Speke, sadly died on Saturday, April 17, in Skelmersdale.
In the months before his death, Adam was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder and was prescribed a range of medication.
Despite pleading for more help with his mental health since last summer, Charlotte said Adam had been on a ten month waiting list to see a psychiatrist.
Charlotte told the ECHO: "He was waiting on that list for a long time.
"He was begging for help off the system. He was ringing the doctors all the time.
"He was begging for it and he could never get what he needed. It makes me feel that something could have been done to save him.
"I don't think that this needed to happen.
"I don't think it should have got to the point where he had to take his own life to end his own suffering because no one else had helped him."
From a young age, Charlotte said Adam was "quiet and sensitive" and struggled to express his emotions.
He had been experiencing financial difficulties and spent most of his adult life sofa surfing at friends and family's houses.
The 27-year-old had previously received a mental health assessment but was waiting for more help in the form of counselling or behavioural therapy.
Charlotte said: "He was always the quiet and sensitive one as a kid, I think that's why the world got to him so much.
"He struggled, really struggled, expressing his emotions.
"He did speak to me more than anyone else but I wasn't capable of fixing his problems for him. I didn't have the tools to help him.
"I would open these conversations up but I never knew how to help him through them. He definitely needed CBT or counselling."
Charlotte believes more needs to be done to teach children about mental health from a young age in schools, including how to understand and process different emotions.
She said: "That's part of the reason men are getting to this situation in the first place - I say men because I do think men have a stereotype to live up to, to be a macho male and I wish that wasn't the case.
"I think every single person out there who says they need psychological help needs to be able to have access to it."
Adam was described by his family as "one of a kind" and someone who "was always there to help anyone."
He leaves behind his mum Julie Whitlock, 50, dad Brian Rowbottom, 51, and siblings Charlotte, 28, Alex, 12, Summer, 11, and Ethan, six.
A Go Fund Me page has been set up in his memory with all money raised going towards the cost of the funeral and headstone.
Paying tribute, Charlotte said: "Throughout his entire life, which has been 27 years, I've never met one person who has a bad word to say about him in that whole time.
"He was so adventurous. He loved hiking and canoeing, he was so fun to be around.
"He just wanted to be in the Lake District away from the rat race - he wanted to be free.
"As a brother he was just the best. Last year we went to Scotland for five days, just me and him, camping in the middle of nowhere," said Charlotte.
"As a kid he would just be up for anything. I've got a million stories of the stuff he used to do that was just hilarious.
"We'd tell him to go to the shop dressed up all silly and he'd do it just for a laugh to make you smile."
To visit and donate to the fundraising page click here.
