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Coping with Regret and Guilt After Your Child’s Suicide: “I Want to Believe”
Guilt After Losing a Child to Suicide

Guilt in Grief: 3 Questions to Ask Yourself
Guilt in Grief That All of Love Could Sweep Time Back Should’ve, would’ve, could’ve, If I’d only come to see, That might I future forward live To see all eternity. That I might know when and where somehow, And here and now then see, To erase the dark and stay the day, To bring back…
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The Agony of Guilt in Grief: That All of Love Could Sweep Time Back
The Agony of Guilt in Grief: That All of Love Could Sweep Time Back That All of Love Could Sweep Time Back Should’ve, would’ve, could’ve, If I’d only come to see, That might I future forward live To see all eternity. That I might know when and where somehow, And here and now then see,…
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Self-Blame and Guilt-I Couldn’t Save My Son
Self-Blame and Guilt: I Couldn’t Save My Son I can’t stop thinking about how much he suffered—and my own inability to save him.Lori Gottlieb, “I Blame Myself for My Son’s Death,” The Atlantic, September 7, 2020 It’s been nearly 10 years since I lost my only son to suicide. Had someone suggested in my first…
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If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You-A Poem About Losing a Child
If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You-A Poem About Losing a Child If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You Bones bear girth where once, wisdom birthed you. Love shaped curves That held me (and you)—too. If only a mother’s love could have saved you, Been there to catch your heart’s fall,…
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“Once Upon a Blue-Sky Moon”-A Poem about Losing a Child to Suicide
“Once Upon a Blue-Sky Moon”-A Poem about Losing a Child to Suicide Once Upon a Blue-Sky Moon And once upon a blue-sky moon, We sailed our ships in your bedroom, With stars for light, we fled the dark But the lightening flashed, And the sky grew dark. You tucked away your childhood dreams On wings…
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Struggling with Guilt After Your Child’s Suicide: “A True Tale of 2 Mothers”
Struggling with Guilt in Suicide Grief Parents of children who die by suicide often battle anadded type of guilt. Even if they do not blame themselvesfor not directly intervening in the suicidal act, they often feelguilt over some perceived mistake in raising their children.“Where did I go wrong?,” “I pushed them too hard.” and“If we…
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