Circle of Grief: Inspired Survivor Speaks Openly About Suicide

• By: Barbara Felton Survivor of a Loved One’s Suicide
• October 1st, 2020
• anorexia, childhood trauma, fall 2020 issue, grief support, pain, shame, stigma, suicide, support groups, survivor
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I walked into the “survivors of suicide” group physically aching and emotionally doubled over in pain. The group – people who’d had a loved one die by suicide – sat in a circle of folding chairs in a pleasant if nondescript meeting room. This was my first visit, a trial effort at relief...

From the Publisher: A Personal Journey From a Survivor of Suicide: “From the Depths of Despair to a Mission of Advocacy”

• By: Ira H. Minot, LMSW Mental Health News Education (MHNE)
• September 28th, 2020
• advocacy, depression, despair, divorce, ECT, fall 2020 issue, hope, hospitalization, medications, mental illness, recovery, stigma, suicide, survivor
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I was drifting in and out of consciousness in the emergency room. “You have to drink this,” someone was saying as they held a tall plastic cup to my lips, filled with a tasteless ink-black liquid. I later learned that the charcoal drink was given to me to absorb the toxic soup that was in my...