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The Layman’s guide to Surviving Suicide
Survivor of Suicide Loss“We all know that when we physically lose people we love, that part of them is never lost because they are always in our hearts.But for me, there are times like this morning, when the giant hole in my heart seems to get bigger and bigger. As the teardrops continue to fall and enlarge the hole, it feels like you get farther and farther away…And that unbearable feeling, of your seeming to get farther and farther away, the feeling of losing touch with what is in my heart, restarts the cycle
Survivor of Suicide Loss If you are a survivor of suicide loss. You
have been through a traumatic experience of losing a loved one to suicide. This will be something that will stay with you forever. Suicide can be very different than losing a family member in a different way other than to suicide. There are feelings and emotions that can be unique to losing someone to suicide:
Re-Engaging with LifeSuicide Survivors Day
A Celebration of Life in all it’s manifestationsAASRAHelping People in DespairHelpline:022-27546669(24 hrs)
Re-Engaging with Life Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze
you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.-- Bernice Johnson Reagon
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.-- George Bernard Shaw
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. - Barbara de Angelis
From Surviving To Thriving Every Suicide Makes this statement “This
far and no further” Edwin Shneidman Perhaps what finally makes him kill himself
is not the firmness of his resolve but the unbearable quality of his anguish . Albert Alvarez
Ultimately it is not how they died but that they died, that is so terrible. Adina Wrobleski
Father of Suicidology Edwin Schneidman coined the term
‘Postvention’ and referred to ‘Survivors of Suicide’ as the largest mental health casualty area related to suicide.
Suicide Survivors Who are they? Anyone impacted by suicide How many are they? 1 suicide every 15 minutes so 6 survivors
every 15 minutes.
Be A Survivor When we are ready, the void left by a
relationship, a job or a dream can then be viewed as open space that can be filled with something new; new experiences, new beginnings, new knowledge, new job opportunities, new dreams, new people and new ways to grow.
Be A Survivor Accept the Intensity of the Grief Grief following a suicide is always
complex. Survivors don’t get over it. Instead with the right kind of support and understanding they can reconcile themselves to it’s reality.