![]() ![]() I turned, in my own introverted, to a different method of peer-led counseling I turned, as I have throughout my life, to books. ![]() It was hard to be out in the world-I felt as if I had no skin, my body a mess of exposed nerve I was a mess, in general, fearful of everything, sure if I brought the baby anywhere, he’d catch some deadly disease. In my postpartum state of mourning, I had shut myself in, shut myself down. I had given birth one week before our mother killed herself and wasn’t getting out of the house much. It was a wonderful, helpful, program, but I doubt I would have participated, had I been able to find a similar one in Southern California. ![]() After our mother took her own life in the midst of a psychotic break in 2009, my sister attended peer-led counseling sessions for suicide loss survivors in Toronto. ![]()
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