Posted in Uncategorized on May 21, 2008 | No Comments »
by Andy McNiel
“You need to get over this.” “I think you need to get some help, because it’s been over a year and you are still doing terribly.” “God has a purpose for this and we have to trust that he knows best.” These are just a few examples of the many statements many of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21, 2008 | No Comments »
by Robert Smith
I was recently working with a young man about 12 years of age. He had recently lost his grandfather as a result of a heart attack. Now this was not just a grandfather. As is common in today’s society, the grandfather was actually fulfilling the role of father. They had a very special [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 3, 2008 | No Comments »
by Richard Edler, from The Compassionate Friends
January 11, 2002… Ten Years? Sometime it seems like yesterday. Sometimes it seems like it never happened. Most of the time, it is somewhere in between. It has been 10 years today since Mark died.
When I wrote Into the Valley and Out Again, I chronicled first one day, then [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Judith Harrington, Ph.D.
Approved Trainer for the American Association of Suicidology
State Suicide Prevention Task Force Coordinator
When I was a child, I learned from a radio report that my mother’s cousin and her husband died in a murder-suicide. I was with my mother as she heard this news for the first time. Many years later, the seeds [...]
