Armed with messages of love, hope and support, Alastair Wilson secures signs on the Cartland Bridge in Lanark.

"I have stood where you stand" reads one, another bluntly states "if you are looking for a sign not to kill yourself, this is it".

Just two weeks prior, Alastair had contemplated ending his life on that very same bridge.

"I've been going through a bad time over the last year, really bad bouts of depression," the 31-year-old explains.

"It was about two weeks ago I was down at the bridge, just standing there wondering 'why shouldn't I just jump?'"

Having being diagnosed with depression at 18, Alastair says he has had highs and lows over the past decade due to his mental health.

"I've been to a lot of places that I probably wouldn't like to admit to. I've tried to take my life a few times," he says.

"You're left to try and deal with whatever feelings are left behind after, most of them being guilt."

Alastair explains that some kind of message would have helped him had he seen it on the bridge and decided to do something that could hopefully save others in the future.

"I was just looking for something that might resonate, might be the right sequence of words. It would definitely resonate from me so I thought why not."

Supported by the Brothers in Arms charity, which helps men with mental health issues, organisers said it was a "beautifully simple idea".

Joined by a friend, Alastair affixed the 20 signs with numbers for Breathing Space onto the bridge in late July.

"I made 20 cards and all 20 cover a wide array of subjects, from telling people to pick up their phone and call anyone, to telling them that no matter what's happened they still matter," Alastair says.

"Even if one resonates and saves one person, mission accomplished."

Since putting up the signs, a post in which he explains the idea to Facebook followers has been shared hundreds of times.

Alastair adds that he hopes the stigma surrounding suicide, especially for men can be broken down.

"There are some really terrifying statistics about people my age around 18 to 45. It's not cancer or heart disease that's most likely to kill you, it's suicide and that's terrifying," he says.

"That's something that should be looked at with more scrutiny.

According to Choose Life, the suicide rate for men in Scotland was three times than for women in 2017.

Samaritans, the leading suicide prevention charity in the UK adds that suicide is the single biggest killer of men under 50 in the UK and young people aged 25 -34.

Alastair's brother Finlay has opened up about his own mental health struggles and posts popular videos online under Kilted Yoga, while Alastair discovered bodybuilding.

In the future, Alastair is looking to transform his signs into a resource distributed by Brothers in Arms, where members of the public could download the messages and distribute them in their area.

"In my mind you are faced with two bridges, you've got one that has nothing and one that gives you no hope and you've got one that has something that might be enough to slow you down or stop you altogether."