It was so hard to tell them that their dad had killed himself
‘It was so hard to tell them that their dad had killed himself. I tried…
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I felt responsible for his death
‘As his mum, I felt responsible for his death; that I should have seen his…
How could all the love we had not have been enough?
‘I’ll never understand – how could all that love we had not have been enough?…
I also felt suicidal
‘I too felt suicidal. Then the pangs of guilt would smash through my head about…
I feel my mum is stigmatised by the label ‘suicide’
‘I feel sometimes that people define my mum’s life by her death. She’s stigmatised by…
I will focus on remembering with joy all the good times
‘So I have made a pact with myself, which some days I can stick to,…
His death consumed every hour of every day
‘His death consumed every minute of every hour of every day and on the rare…
I started talking – I have found the strength to move forward
‘I spent a large amount of time trying to ‘solve’ why my son had decided…
There were others out there who were by my side
In the chaos after the death, when I felt so alone, so desperate and so…
I felt so alone, so desperate and so dazed
In the chaos after the death, when I felt so alone, so desperate and so…