The Mourning After
Grief, death, traumatic loss, coping, not coping, and the things I wish I’d known about all of them.
Leah Royden
Those who lose a sibling to suicide suffer a "double loss"—their sibling is gone, and so is their family as they knew it. Typically, they mourn both losses alone.
We like to think we offer compassion to those bereaved by suicide, and that stigma was left back in the Middle Ages. Does research reveal more medieval attitudes?
How do you make it through the tinsel, turkey, and togetherness when somebody you love is never coming home for Christmas?
People often say you “never get over” losing a loved one—and in the early days of raw grief, those words can feel like your own death sentence. But are they true?