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On Life, Death, and the Nature of Limbo: Assisted Suicides in the CFIDS Community
Published in Peggy Munson, Stricken, 2014
Despite popular mythology, though, CFIDS is not a form of depression. It is a separate entity altogether. Most people with CFIDS do not have a history of depression, or a family history of depression. My case was unusual. But because of my own background, I was already bilingual in the “special language” of suicides. As an online CFIDS support group leader, I was torn apart whenever I heard the desperate voice of someone with CFIDS considering death. As a suicide survivor, it pulled at my most complicated emotions. As a person with CFIDS, I was unsure what to say to talk the person out of it. I couldn't necessarily guarantee the person would feel differently in a week or a month. I could only offer my own metaphor about CFIDS being like catastrophic weather. It comes in like a tornado; it could leave just as quickly.
“Nobody Talks about Suicide, Except if They're Kidding”
Published in John R. Cutcliffe, José Carlos Santos, Paul S. Links, Juveria Zaheer, Henry G. Harder, Frank Campbell, Rod McCormick, Kari Harder, Yvonne Bergmans, Rahel Eynan, Routledge International Handbook of Clinical Suicide Research, 2013
Other emergent study findings related to the varied salience of a suicide survivor identity among participants. One participant, Carrie, identifies so strongly with this status, she has “survivor” tattooed on her arm. For Carrie, who is 30 years old and lost one of her very best high school friends, Thomas, around nine years ago, her suicide survivor status is extremely salient: CarrieI have, yeah, I have a ribbon, “I'm a suicide survivor,” so I have “Suicide Survivor” tattooed on my arm, and then on the back of my neck I have a green shamrock with a yellow ribbon tied around it with a little bow, because yellow ribbons was how we started talking about suicide…InterviewerSo they're all tied to Thomas?CarrieThose three, yeah.
Longitudinal Intercorrelations between Complicated Grief and Posttraumatic Growth among Suicide Survivors
Published in Archives of Suicide Research, 2022
Participants comprised 189 suicide survivors who took part in the study’s first measurement point (T1), conducted during 2015–2016. Of these, 156 (82.5%) participated in the second assessment (T2), 18 months after T1. Regarding the 33 participants absent from T2, 20 could not be located, and 13 did not respond to the invitation letter for the second phase. No significant differences were found in demographic and psychological characteristics between participants and non-participants at T2. Thus, the current study’s sample comprised 156 suicide survivors (132 women, 24 men), aged 18–70. A suicide survivor was defined as an individual who had lost a family member or other close friend due to suicide (Cerel et al., 2016). Exclusion criteria were being under age 15 at the time of the suicide and the inability to speak and write in Hebrew or English (proficiency in either language was an inclusion criterion).
Distress, Grief, and Functionality following Military Unit Suicide Exposure
Published in Military Behavioral Health, 2021
Kyna Pak, Su Yeon Lee-Tauler, Kelly E. Ferreira, Kanchana Perera, Marjan Ghahramanlou-Holloway
Perceived closeness was associated with grief, but not with distress or functioning. One caveat is that this item did not capture the reference point for timing. The participant could answer based on how close they felt to the decedent at any point during their lifetime, which could be interpreted from a variety of time points. Yet, this is common practice within suicide survivor research (Cerel et al., 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017; Hom et al., 2017; Mitchell et al., 2009; Reed & Greenwald, 1991). Cerel and colleagues (2015) found greater perceived closeness was associated with higher scores on measures of depression, anxiety, PTSD, and prolonged grief in a veteran sample. In a study of military service members exposed to suicide, greater closeness was associated with greater risk for suicide and lifetime history of suicidal behavior, but not non-suicidal self-injury (Hom et al., 2017). Bryan and colleagues (2017) reported that perceived closeness to the suicide decedent was associated with increased risk for PTSD, depression, and suicidal thoughts and attempts.
The Burden of Farmer Suicide on Surviving Family Members: A Qualitative Study
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2020
Kimberly A. Link, Dawn Garrett-Wright, M. Susan Jones
A support system of individuals who are open to discussing the loss of their loved one helps facilitate growth and healing (Levi-Belz, 2015). Support groups can be beneficial for survivors of suicide, although, outreach to these survivors is often passive and may occur weeks or months after the event (Cerel et al., 2014). When outreach is passive, survivors often have to seek out support groups on their own (Cerel et al., 2014). Some family members may proactively choose to seek out local suicide survivor support groups and may eventually take on a leadership role within these groups (Castelli Dransart, 2017; Cerel et al., 2014). Support groups for survivors of suicide can allow family members to process through their loss with others who have been in similar situations, and over time they can begin to be a source of support for other families newly affected by suicide (Cerel et al., 2014). Some families may even become advocates for suicide prevention, and use their painful experience to help prevent other individuals from committing suicide (Castelli Dransart, 2017; Cerel et al., 2014).