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Suicide Grief: Prolonged Grief Disorder?

Suicide Grief: Prolonged Grief Disorder? Suicide [grief] can be complicated by feelings of guilt, shame, responsibility, rejection, and stigmatization. National Library of Medicine, Grief interventions for people bereaved by suicide: A systematic review What Is Prolonged Grief Disorder? Complicated Grief Known as complicated grief until 2022, long-term grief is now defined by the DSM-5 as […]

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I Will Love You Forever Mom

I’ll Love You Forever Mom “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living my baby you’ll be.” Robert Munsch, Love Your Forever Three Years Out After Losing Dylan Originally Published 2016 I Will Love You Forever Mom Memorial Dates It has been 3 years of acute agony, pain, and […]

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If Earth Were Sky and Sky Above: A Poem About Losing a Child to Suicide

If Earth Were Sky and Sky Above: A Poem About Losing a Child to Suicide ABOUT THIS POEM: If Earth Were Sky and Sky Above: A Poem About Losing a Child to Suicide is a poem I wrote on my son’s seventh memorial date. I grow pensive as I near my son’s memorial date each […]

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A Song About Losing My Son: My Child on Earth Above, In Heaven’s Care

A Song About Losing My Son: My Child on Earth Above in Heaven’s Care ABOUT THIS POST: When I wrote this song, I originally titled it “As I Tuck You In.” The music has the feel and rhythm of a lullaby, and the lyrics and music came from the depths of my sorrow. As I […]

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Find Hope Here: Poems About Losing a Child to Suicide

Find Hope Here: Poems About Losing a Child to Suicide ABOUT THIS POST: Find Hope Here: Poems About Losing a Child to Suicide is a collection of poems I’ve written about losing a child to suicide. I lost my 20-year-old son, my only child, to suicide June 25, 2012. Suicide changes everything. Reflecting on Grief […]

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The Holidays Descend: Suicide Never Ends

The Holidays Descend: Suicide Never Ends (A Long Read Post) And so it is I checked out last night, hoisted the white flag, decided the last thing I could really do is hole up and write, knowing I needed to walk but not having the wherewithal to walk here at home on my treadmill. So […]

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Quiet Tears at 3 Years

Quiet Tears at 3 Years Your beat of heart hersNow her own to live on,Sick pulse of acheholding death in her arms. Beth Brown, My Forever Son, If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You, A Poem About Losing a Child 3 Years of Infinite Tears You are a “survivor of suicide,” and as […]

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Beat Still My Heart: A Poem About Losing My Son to Suicide

Beat Still My Heart: A Poem About Losing My Son to Suicide Beat Still My Heart Beat still my heart, Beat still my mind, Weary though thou art, Carry his love along with thine, Though heavy on thy shoulders Crost fields throughout all time. In the deepest dark of the bleakest night, If light there […]

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Living Backwards Going Forward-Year 3

Living Backwards Going Forward-Year 3 A Sense of the Surreal Living Backwards Going Forward means that in the strangest of ways, it is always, for me, June 25th, 2012. Or some time before that. All the way back to March 1992 and up to June 2012. I suppose to some effect, my life is indeed […]

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Carrying Ache and Love in Suicide Loss

Carrying Ache and Love in Suicide Loss Now, after all this time, Ache and Love walk together in my heart. Holding hands, one is never without the other, but ache and love have carried me—and carry me still.  Beth Brown, My Forever Son Carrying Ache My life both imploded and exploded the day Dylan died. […]