Feb 16, 2016
Postvention is ultimately about hope, about reestablishing hope in a person and a community or workplace that has been devastated by a suicide Hope In this confusing and often lonely journey we call suicide grief, there is one aspect that sustains us and guides us,...
Feb 16, 2016
Those who have been bereaved by suicide are often haunted by two questions: Why did they do it? Could I have done something to prevent it? The sad truth is that we can never really know the complete answer, as the only person who could tell us is the person who died....
Feb 16, 2016
One day you wake up and realise that you must have survived it because you are still here, alive and breathing. But you don’t remember the infinitely small steps and decisions you took to get there. Your only awareness is that you have shed miles of tears on what...
Feb 16, 2016
Often, immediately following a suicide death, friends rally around and show support. But over time they may appear to be less concerned and their contact may become less frequent. Remember the following: Generally, friends are well meaning and they want to support and...
Feb 16, 2016
Survivors often wonder how bereavement after suicide compares to bereavement after other kinds of death. Special themes of suicide bereavement manifest themselves in three broad areas of grief response. First, numerous studies have found that survivors seem to...
Feb 16, 2016
When a loved one suicides, it’s like they left us standing alone in a room with a very large elephant. We’ve never owned an elephant before. We have no use for it, nor do we want it. But here we are…stuck in a room with this elephant. We have no idea...
