The heartbreak when I've learned...
It's happened to someone else
I remember a quote from Grey’s Anatomy that stuck with me—there’s a dead dads club and you can’t be in it until you’re in it.
If that is true, how much more so for joining the dead parent by suicide club?
I am a deeply feeling person. I am back in therapy and one of the things I said to my therapist is that I think I feel things really deeply. She said she agreed.
So there’s a part of my heart that is just crushed to learn that someone, a student, say, has to had to join this club. Because it’s a hard one.
But I also started this newsletter partly for that exact reason.
A student who recently experienced a loss said this—there’s a strange comfort in knowing you’re not alone in this type of grief. Because while you never want another to experience this, the only ones who can really ‘get’ how suicides of parents hit, are those who have also experienced them.
Suicide empathy.
You are not alone. And it’s a journey of grief and sometimes trauma and heartbreak, but though it’s never easier there can be some space that grows around the grief that we must live with and carry forever.
