This is self-work and I'm Dr Margaret Rutherford.

At self-work we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world and what to do about them.

I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own self work.

Hi and welcome to self work. I'm so glad you joined me today. We're going to be

talking about something, of course, very serious. We're talking about when

someone you love dies by suicide.

As a clinical psychologist for over 25 years, I've sadly worked with many people who are trying

to handle the tragedy of suicide. We're going to talk in general about the specific type of grief

one experiences after a suicide. Some of the reasons why people die by suicide

will be quoting an article from psychology today. We'll talk about the difference

between saying someone committed suicide and someone died by suicide.

There's also the problem if you found the person that you love and they had died by their

own hand.

What kind of effect that has on you?

You can develop PTSD or post-traumatic stress disorder and so we're going to talk a

little bit about well-researched and evidence-based treatment for PTSD. In self-work I'm trying to reach out to those of you who perhaps never would have talked

to a psychologist, but obviously if you're handling something like this in your life, it's very difficult and it takes a long time. The email

from a listener today, which we have at the end of every podcast, is a

listener who's trying to cope with a mom who has a severe personality disorder. But first and

foremost I want to say that anyone who is suicidal who may be listening to

this can receive immediate help by logging on to suicide.org or by calling 1-800 suicide.

Suicide is preventable and you can get help.

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