Wherever you live, support is always available via email. just click on the Contact page. It is also possible to put you in touch with support resources in your area of the UK.
Many people feel a little unsure about counselling but there is nothing to fear from helping yourself in this way.
Suicide can cause great guilt and remorse especially if the dead person's intentions were known or that any efforts were inadequate to alter the outcome. It is common to experience a sense of isolation and stigma.
"I felt embarrassment. I asked myself, 'What must my friends think of me and our family? How can I ever face them again? I am so humiliated."
"I felt isolated even though people were all about. It was so easy to say 'Nobody loved him the way I did. No one even understands my pain or can empathise with it. Worst of all, nobody wants to talk to me about what happened. Everyone avoids the subject."
Do seek outside help as friends and family may find it hard to offer support, and guilt may delay you from seeking it.
MORE ABOUT GRIEF:
Grief describes the human response to when a death or loss is suffered. Grief often involves emotional pain and suffering but is also natural and necessary after a loss.
Everyone experiences grief in a different way, but there may be some common thoughts and feelings:
Shock and disbelief or denial: this can't be so
Anger or guilt: this isn't fair if only I had
Sadness and depression I'm so alone
Grief can affect the capacity to function, including:
* Disrupted sleep
* Changes to appetite
* Exhaustion and restlessness
* Anxiety and irritability
* Disinterest and reduced ability to cope
The most overwhelming feeling can be, simply, the sense of loss and the struggle to adjust to that loss.
Moving Through Loss:
Sometimes it is useful to help the mourning process by sharing your experiences with someone else. Expressing your feelings either by talking can be therapeutic. Taking care of yourself physically eating healthily and exercising
is also important. Allowing others to help you is good. Trusting yourself to go with your feelings to cry if you feel sad, listen to emotive music, look through mementoes can help you to heal. Be easy on yourself.
Occasionally we can get stuck in grief and need some support to learn to live with the loss and you can begin to work towards this through counselling.
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