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For Parents and Families Attempting to Survive After The Tragedy of Their Child, Grandchild, Sibling or Friend's Suicide
Articles
Surviving Your Child's Suicide

25 Reasons to Avoid Suicide

How to Comfort Someone Whose Child Has Died

Dealing with Anger and Guilt After a Suicide

Wanting to End Life

The Elephant

Is My Child At Risk for Suicide?

The Link Between Stress and Depression

Understanding Depressed, Self-Harming and Suicidal Adolescents

What can I do if I suspect someone I know is thinking about suicide?

How to Communicate With Your Teenager  by Jan Andersen

Some Things You Should Know About Preventing Teen Suicide

How to Handle Schoolyard Bullying  by Jan Andersen

What Can I Do to Help Someone Who Maybe Suicidal?

Breaking the Silence on Black Suicide

How to Talk to a Child About Death

How Teens Deal With Death

How We Can Stop Teenage Suicides

Help At Last For Suicidal Young Men

A National Tragedy: Preventing Suicide in Troubled Children and Youth
Tips for Parents and Schools

Steep Rise In Child Suicide Attempts

Suicide Linked to The Moon

Serotonin and the Suicidal Brain

One In 75 Under 10s Attempts Self-Harm

Suicide in Youth  Recognition and intervention for suicidal students in the school setting.

Building Self-Esteem in The Child Who Feels Different  by Jan Andersen

The Terrible Teens  Book Review by Jill Curtis

What Does "Suicide Contagion" Mean, And What Can Be Done To Prevent It?

Suicide is a Teenage Epidemic

Why Suicide?

Teen Suicides: Life, After Death

Suicide and Youth With Bipolar Disorder  Recent research shows that adolescents with bipolar disorder demonstrate a high frequency of mixed manic states, suicidality, and more depressive features than adults with the disorder.

What is Abuse? Abuse can lead to suicide. But what is abuse?  It covers a wide range of behaviour. Even loving too much can be regarded as abuse. Read Sam Varknin's enlightening article.

The Psychology of Torture

The Surprising Truth About Heroin and Addiction

Understanding Manic Depression  About 1 per cent of the general population are diagnosed with manic depression; they are often intelligent and creative people.

Depression is an ILLNESS, Not a State of Mind or a Weakness! 

Suicide Among Women

Preventing Youth Suicide

Celebrities and Depression  Enlightening interviews with Stephen Fry, Winona Ryder and Stan Collymore.  Stephen Fry says, "There is never any logical reason for despair. Reason has absolutely nothing to do with it. You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height."

Reincarnation: Sacred Children Series - 1 of 3

More Than I Can Bear   An inspirational article by Skye Thomas with advice on what to do if someone says that they are feeling suicidal.

A Death in The Family  Sooner or later we are all affected by the death of someone we love. Of course, we each have our own individual way of reacting when we are faced by grief and loss and one person's response may be very different from another's. This helpful article was written by senior London psychotherapist, Jill Curtis.
"Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim."

Barbara Lazear Ascher in Landscape Without Gravity: A Memoir of Grief
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