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Carla Fine
Born
in New York City, New York, The United States
May 29, 1946
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“Coping with any death is traumatic; suicide compounds the anguish because we are forced to deal with two traumatic events at the same time. According to the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the level of stress resulting from the suicide of a loved one is ranked as catastrophic–equivalent to that of a concentration camp experience.”
― No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One
― No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One
“Every family member reacts to the suicide of a loved one in his or her own individual manner: from anger to admiration, from identification to denial. Dr. Edward Dunne likens the suicide of his brother, Tim, to a meteorite that crashed into his family, sending each member into different and separate orbits of mourning. “Suicide destroys the original fabric of the family, forcing a reintegration of the survivors,” he says. “The pace at which individual family members are ready and able to do this will vary, necessitating individual interventions.”
― No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One
― No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One
“Most of us adapt; eventually learning to navigate on ground we no longer trust to be steady. We gradually come to accept that our questions will not be answered. We try not to torture ourselves for having failed to predict the coming catastrophe and preventing our loved ones from taking their lives.”
― No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One
― No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One
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