surviving suicide: a layman's guide to keeping oneself motivated in the face of tremendous odds...

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

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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.