Why “Holding It Together” Can Feel Like Abandonment in Grief
What happens when everything you know professionally about grief suddenly becomes personal?
Dr. Patricia Timerman had worked in suicide prevention, intervention and postvention. She had studied suicide grief and facilitated groups for people who had lost someone to suicide.
Then her dear friend Scott died by suicide.
Suddenly, Patricia wasn’t simply the clinician facilitating the conversation. She was grieving too. Despite everything she knew professionally, she found herself minimizing her own loss because Scott wasn’t her spouse, child or parent. It was the members of her own grief group…
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