
It’s essential to talk to someone, it doesn’t make you weak, it makes you strong
‘After my son died I found it really difficult – I felt I had failed…
‘After my son died I found it really difficult – I felt I had failed…
‘I needed people to say the same things they might have said if she had…
‘Without the kindness and prayers of our church, I don’t know how my family would…
‘I have been first on the scene after a number of suicides and they have…
‘I felt I had to stay strong to support the rest of my family, especially…
‘It was so hard to tell them that their dad had killed himself. I tried…
‘As his mum, I felt responsible for his death; that I should have seen his…
‘I’ll never understand – how could all that love we had not have been enough?…
‘I too felt suicidal. Then the pangs of guilt would smash through my head about…
‘I feel sometimes that people define my mum’s life by her death. She’s stigmatised by…
‘So I have made a pact with myself, which some days I can stick to,…
‘His death consumed every minute of every hour of every day and on the rare…