Helping those bereaved by suicide
Helping others grieving a suicide is a demanding task as it affects you as well. However, by coming to terms with your own loss, you can help those more directly affected. Familiarise yourself with the experiences of grief the bereaved is having.
There are general and specific suggestions to follow.
Overall, encourage hope that they can learn to live with a lessintense but still real grief.
Is Christmas good for you?
Many people just don’t like Christmas. It’s not that they are Ba Hum Bug, they just don’t care.
There can be genuinely understandable reasons for this. So can a person who is just not into Christmas enjoy Christmas?
How do you have a happy time over Christmas when you’d rather it just didn’t exist?