Grief After Suicide Loss: It Doesn’t Get Lighter, You Get Used to the Weight
Hope is powerful and necessary but sometimes that’s not how the story ends. Sometimes, your sister dies and you just have to keep living without her.
Topic: suicide loss
Hope is powerful and necessary but sometimes that’s not how the story ends. Sometimes, your sister dies and you just have to keep living without her.
I want to be angry at a disease, a car accident, something.
Your story isn't finished—but you have to make the choice to keep writing it.
July 27, 2019, began as an unremarkable summer day.
How do we hold onto hope, when everything seems bleak?
I’ve heard of it before, this phenomenon where the ones who survive the unthinkable wrestle with immense guilt for the very act of surviving, to a point where they find it difficult to celebrate being alive.
I made this for you, friend. I hope it reminds you that no moments are worthless.
In the wake of his suicide, I became suicidal, a common side-effect of surviving a suicide.
My brother was extraordinary. When he died, so suddenly and without warning, I felt that nothing would be extraordinary again. Except for my pain.
I knew he was struggling, but he told me was better.
i stumbled upon the news of Jarrid’s death the following afternoon, Tuesday, World Suicide Prevention Day, around 5pm. My brain rejected it instantly. Impossible. The words could not be true.
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