Help is at hand for people bereaved by suicide and other traumatic death
Open Access
- 1 August 2008
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in Psychiatric Bulletin
- Vol. 32 (8), 309-311
- https://doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.107.018242
Abstract
Bereavement following suicide is traumatic. Guilt, shame, stigma and feelings of rejection and isolation set it apart from the sadness following other kinds of death and may make it difficult for the bereaved person to obtain help (Harwood et al, 2002; Hawton & Simkin, 2003; Beautrais, 2004). the necessary official processes surrounding death by suicide, like the police and coroner's investigations, can add to the trauma (Biddle, 2003). This may be compounded by inaccurate or insensitive media reporting. Bereaved individuals are at risk of increased morbidity from abnormal grief reactions (Mitchell et al, 2005) and suicide (Qin et al, 2002), and they often need considerable support (de Groot et al, 2006; 2007).This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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