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| Welcome to our group and website. We're sorry you had to
seek us out. Actually, none of us ever dreamed
of joining a support group like this either. What brings us together is our
common experience of suffering the devastating loss of a loved one by suicide.
We are like other mourners in feeling overwrought with the unbearable sadness
and emptiness from loss. |
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| Yet, compared to others who grieve for lost
loved ones, we are different. What sets us apart as survivors of suicide is our
relatively unique experience of being racked by guilt, shame, feeling anger
toward our departed loved one and an assortment of other intense feelings. We
are also totally shocked and mystified that a person we loved and thought we
knew so fully could ever commit suicide. Other mourners usually don't deal with
some of our issues. |
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| We have entered this place from different paths.
Some of us felt our lives were idyllic and believed the future would only bring
more joy and fulfillment. For others, life was an endless roller coaster of
psychic ups and downs. Yet, even those of us who struggled with an impaired
family member always held onto a ray of hope that our loved one could
eventually get better.
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| Now, no matter where we came from, we are all
together: dreams shattered and our future, one of enduring pain and longing.
Yet, in our support group, with others who have sustained similar losses, we
know we can comfort and support each other and move beyond our initial feelings
of intense shock and pain to a more comfortable place. |
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Our support group, with the
mutual aid of its members, helps us find the inner strength to repair our
lives, to find meaning again and to receive and give love and comfort to those
who depend upon us. |
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| We all share the common experience of suicide
loss and we are convinced that this similarity between us will enable us to
draw strength from each other. We are confident that together, with the aid of
each other, we will cope better with our losses and, once again, find some joy
in the future. |
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Group Co-Facilitators:
Bill and Beverly Feigelman
181-34 Aberdeen Road
Jamaica, NY 11432
718-380-8205 or 8206
Bill’s email: feigelw@ncc.edu
Bev’s email: feigelma@aol.com
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