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You’re Not Broken—You’re Surviving a Loss to Suicide
A death by suicide brings a form of grief that can be isolating, disorienting, and relentlessly complicated. Alongside profound loss may come guilt, anger, stigma, traumatic images, unanswered questions, and the exhausting search for an explanation that may never fully arrive. You're Not Broken-You're Surviving a Loss to Suicide speaks directly to those living in that difficult aftermath. Drawing upon the death of his own son, years of grief-support experience, and service as a volunteer responding to traumatic deaths, James R.
Petersen offers compassionate insight into the realities that suicide-loss survivors often face but may struggle to express. This book explores the emotional, physical, relational, legal, financial, and spiritual consequences that can follow a suicide. It addresses difficult subjects honestly, including blame, shame, PTSD-like responses, stigma, family conflict, the presence or absence of a note, disturbing images, public scenes, calendar triggers, and the fear that suicide has permanently changed your world.
This is not a suicide-prevention manual, nor does it offer formulas, timetables, or promises of closure. It is a steady, nonjudgmental companion for understanding what is happening, finding language for an experience others may not understand, and learning how to carry an unbearable loss without believing that you are broken.
Petersen offers compassionate insight into the realities that suicide-loss survivors often face but may struggle to express. This book explores the emotional, physical, relational, legal, financial, and spiritual consequences that can follow a suicide. It addresses difficult subjects honestly, including blame, shame, PTSD-like responses, stigma, family conflict, the presence or absence of a note, disturbing images, public scenes, calendar triggers, and the fear that suicide has permanently changed your world.
This is not a suicide-prevention manual, nor does it offer formulas, timetables, or promises of closure. It is a steady, nonjudgmental companion for understanding what is happening, finding language for an experience others may not understand, and learning how to carry an unbearable loss without believing that you are broken.
