How to Cope with Suicide Loss? A Clinical Psychology Podcast Episode.

Whenever you lose a loved one, a child or a friend to suicide loss, it can be one of the hardest things that you ever experience. It can destroy your mental health, make you question everything and you can feel as if you’re losing everything. Your life feels like it’s crumbling around you. As an individual who tried to die by suicide three times in 2024 after the trauma of my rape, I understand this topic from the other side, but I want to understand the impact that it has on the individuals left behind after a successful suicide attempt. And most importantly, as an aspiring educational or clinical psychologist, I want to understand how to better support people coping with suicide loss. Therefore, in this clinical psychology podcast episode, you’ll learn how to cope with suicide loss, how to navigate post-suicide grief and more. I’ll also discuss implications for aspiring and qualified clinical and educational psychologists too. If you enjoy learning about mental health, suicide and more, then this will be a great episode for you.

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Introduction to Coping After Suicide Loss

As I’ve spoken about in previous suicide-focused podcast episodes, every single year without fail, hundreds of thousands of people die by suicide all over the world. This is heartbreaking because each of those “numbers” represents a person who will never hug their parents, friends or children ever again, no one will hear them laugh and no one will get to know how much of a brilliant person they are. As well as research shows that for each suicide, they leave behind an average of 6 to 10 “survivors”. These survivors can be parents, children, partners, loved ones and close friends who are all devastated and heartbroken by the death, and each person might not know how to navigate or cope with the grief.

What makes suicide loss even more heartbreaking for the individual survivors is that compared to non-suicide loss, experiencing a loss to suicide can be extremely isolating. Not only because of the stigma, the shame and the confusion that accompany this form but not other forms of loss, but also because we don’t know how to talk about suicide.

Therefore, whilst there is help available to people experiencing suicide loss, typically in the form of friends, family members, therapists, your own community and support groups, it can feel impossible or difficult to reach out to this support.

What’s important to note is that after someone has experienced suicide loss, they will be experiencing a lot of pain, and this pain will seem unbearable, like it will never end and it will consume their life. Yet over time, as the person starts to process it, heal and feel hopeful again, it is possible to learn how to honour their loved one’s memory and overcome the pain and potential trauma of the suicide loss.

Then over time, what the suicide survivor can do is share their story, their experience and their journey with other people, so everyone can learn from their loss and use its lessons to protect the mental health of others. This can also be very healing to the survivor themselves.

Personally, there are two main reasons why I want to look at this topic. Firstly, as a suicide survivor myself, I tried to end my own life in 2024, three different times with three different methods. I just wanted the pain to stop, my trauma to stop impacting me and I didn’t see another way out. Thankfully, all my suicide attempts failed because I love my life now. I was able to heal from my trauma, I am thriving and I have had so many amazing relationships and done so many fun things that I never ever would have been able to do if I had been successful.

As a result, I’m interested in learning about suicide loss, because I want to develop a deeper understanding of what might have been. What might have my friends, family members and loved ones experienced if I had killed myself? As well as with me being an aspiring educational or clinical psychologist, it is very likely that I will meet someone clinically who has experienced suicide loss and to be able to support them, I will need to have a basic understanding at the very least of what they’ve experienced and what I can do to support them. But also, what not to do.

The final reason why I wanted to look at this topic is because of the boys’ love anime Given. The series follows the story of Mafuyu Sato after he lost the love of his life and his boyfriend Yuki to suicide six months before the start of the anime. You can see the sheer trauma and the impact that the suicide has had on him and whilst I had very mixed feelings towards Given in the beginning because of my own complex relationship with suicide, I have learnt to really enjoy the anime. Therefore, seeing Mafuyu struggle with the suicide of his boyfriend, and everyone else who knew Yuki, it made me want to explore this topic in more depth. Especially as suicide is common in the LGBT+ community.

How Do You Navigate Post-Suicide Grief?

As I mentioned earlier, if you lose a person to suicide then this will trigger a very painful form of grief that is very different to the grief triggered by other forms of loss. The reason why suicide grief is painfully unique is because if you experience the death of a loved one to, let’s say, old age, then you might feel alone, abandoned and you’re unable to imagine life without your loved one. Yet when it comes to suicide loss, then this grief becomes more complex because you need to navigate the anger, shame, stigma and in some cases, serious trauma that isn’t present in other forms of loss.

Building upon this, suicide loss can be traumatic for the survivors and the people left behind because you might be the one to discover your loved one. This is traumatic enough but the method of suicide might have been violent and you might have to talk to the police afterwards. We know from forensic psychology research that interactions with the criminal justice system can be retraumatising, so this isn’t always helpful.

For example, the anime Given does this very well, but we learn that Mafuyu was the person who found his boyfriend dead hanging from the ceiling of his bedroom, and it was Mafuyu who had to get him down from the ceiling. We can only imagine how traumatic, awful and sickening that was for him.

In addition, I want to mention the anger for a moment in two different ways. When it comes to suicide loss, it is very possible, normal and understandable to flat out love the person who died by suicide but also be extremely angry at them for taking their own life. For instance, a while ago, I was listening to an episode of “Psychology, Actually” or back then, it was known as The Aspiring Psychologist Podcast and the episode’s guest was the author of Daddy Blackbird. It’s a book about suicide loss after her husband and the father of her children died by suicide one morning. In this episode, she described how her family associated the blackbird in the garden with their dad and the wife described on the episode how some mornings, she just wanted to shout, scream and hit that blackbird because she was so angry with her husband for leaving her and her children.

I understand this, in a way at the very least.

When you love someone, you want to treasure them and you want to spend the rest of your life with them, and then you can’t. It’s normal, it’s okay and it’s understandable for you to be angry.

And as much as you understand intellectually that they feel like they didn’t have a choice, your loved one was in so much pain and they believed that they were a burden on you, you are still allowed to be angry because you are human. As long as you keep moving forward, you try to heal and cope with the suicide loss, then a little bit of anger is good from time to time.

Another example is from Given again because when Mafuyu finally sings his song that makes everyone cry and it lands him his crush, he says some words that I find fascinating “I will never forgive you or myself,”. And as I write this episode, I realise that Given is actually a great example of how suicide loss impacts a person and I know the reason why I felt so uncomfortable watching it at first was because I felt guilty that I almost did the same to so many amazing people in my life. Anyway, the song shows that as much as Mafuyu flat out loves Yuki and he will always hold onto him, he will always be angry that Yuki took his own life because Yuki took himself away from Mafuyu, their love and everything that they wanted to build together.

Moreover, survivors might convince themselves that there was something that they could have done to prevent the death, or they might feel like a monster or a terrible person for being unaware that their loved one was in so much pain. A quote that applies to this situation and I originally learnt it after I was raped, but it is still true. There is nothing you could have done because you couldn’t have prevented it.

These emotions are even more challenging to navigate when we consider that in a lot of cultures or religions, suicide is condemned or it is considered taboo. This in itself is outrageous and it only harms individuals with suicidal ideation and it prevents them from speaking out and getting the mental health support that they desperately need.

As a result, when it comes to applying this information to aspiring and qualified educational and clinical psychologists, it is difficult but there are clear ways. For example, it’s important that as an aspiring or qualified psychologist that you understand the truth about suicide, because over our lifetime, we are knowingly or unintentionally learnt and internalised the myths and misconceptions about suicide. In turn, these myths and misconceptions will negatively impact our clinical and educational work, so it’s important that we unlearn these myths and learn the truth about suicide, so we can do better in the future.

Listening or reading this podcast episode is a great first step.

Regardless of the type of psychologist you are, as soon as a client reveals that they have attempted or they are seriously considering suicide, then please understand the correct way to respond. Based on my personal experience, there is nothing worse than having a mental health professional react badly, negatively and invalidating towards you. It doesn’t help the therapeutic relationship and I talk about this in a lot more detail in my book, Healing As A Survivor.

Anyway, returning to the topic of the podcast episode, when it comes to supporting an individual after suicide loss, it’s important that we help them to understand the truth about suicide. We need the client to understand that they couldn’t have prevented it, it wasn’t their fault and so on. As well as if you’re an educational psychologist, then you might have to support teachers, support staff and senior management after the suicide loss of a child. This is going to be an immensely stressful time for everyone because everyone will want answers from the school. This might compound feelings of anger, stress, confusion and guilt. This is why educational psychologists can be useful in providing mental health support to the students and staff, help everyone to understand that this wasn’t their fault and focus on whatever else needs to be done in light of a suicide loss at school.

Is It Okay to Feel Relief After Suicide Loss?

When I read this next fact about suicide, I was confused, a little shocked and a little uncomfortable but it’s interesting to think about. Therefore, individuals who die by suicide typically spent months, if not years, struggling with serious mental health difficulties, substance abuse or other challenges before they die. Navigating these challenges also puts their family under considerable stress and family members and loved ones are constantly worried about them and have sleepless nights. Family members are worried that their child or loved one might be using drugs again, they might not be safe or they might never see them again. It’s a constant cycle of worry.

This all takes a major mental health and physical health toll on the support network.

As a result, some survivors report feeling a slight slice of relief after a suicide loss alongside immense pain, suffering and confusion because the anxiety and uncertainty is finally over.

Nonetheless, this minor feeling of relief can invoke major feelings of guilt and shame in survivors, but this relief is understandable and it’s a common component of people’s suicide grief. Therefore, it’s okay that you’re experiencing feelings of relief and it’s even more okay to share these feelings with trusted others.

And this is the major implication for aspiring and qualified psychologists, because there will be times when a client says something that shocks us, surprises us or makes us feel very uncomfortable. Yet it’s important that we allow ourselves to process these feelings at a later date, because we cannot afford to invalidate, dismiss or belittle the client. They’ve had the courage to tell us what they’re experiencing and feeling and we have to respect them. If we don’t then it risks the therapeutic alliance and all the great work that we’ve done in therapy can be undone.

Why Didn’t I Know How Much My Loved One Was Suffering?

After a loved one has died by suicide, survivors typically find themselves overwhelmed with guilt and they constantly question themselves. For instance, “why didn’t I know they were in so much pain?”, “why didn’t I check in with them more?” and “could I have stopped them?”. Over time, these questions become haunting as well as repetitive.

Nonetheless, the truth is, us individuals who die or want to die by suicide, we hide our suicidal intentions and we hide the depths of our despair. We already think that we’re a burden and the world is better off without us, so we don’t want to further burden people by revealing our suicidal intention. As well as sometimes we do show external signs of suicidal ideation but laypeople don’t recognise these signs or they don’t take them seriously.

Also, some individuals who go on to die by suicide outright reject offers of help or the seem to make progress before sinking back into despair.

Personally, I like to think that I would never forget a particular episode of The Aspiring Psychologist Podcast (now rebranded as Psychology, Actually) and in the episode, a father was telling the story of how his son who died by suicide seemed extremely happy in the weeks before he died. The family now knows that he was extremely happy because he had accepted that he was going to end his own life and he finally wouldn’t be in pain anymore. Therefore, whilst this is a much larger topic that I’ve already reflected on in other places, it’s important to acknowledge that progress after suicidal ideation can be hiding something deeper, so this is good for aspiring and qualified psychologists to be aware of.

Furthermore, self-blame is a very common response to a loved one’s suicide but it’s important to remember that emotions aren’t facts. In many ways, suicide is very unpredictable and someone’s decision to take their own life is entirely their own. This is why seeking mental health support can help someone to make sense of these pervasive feelings of guilt as well as recognise that they aren’t to blame for their loved one’s death.

Is It Normal to Have Suicidal Thoughts After a Loved One Dies by Suicide?

Unfortunately, there is research that suggests that suicide survivors are at an increased risk of taking their own lives, because immense grief can trigger the feelings of despair as well as hopelessness that suicidal thoughts thrive in. Also, because suicide survivors tend to suffer in silence, they might be less likely to share their suicidal ideation with others and seek professional help.

However, it’s important to remember that there’s no shame in feeling suicidal, even more so after the death of a loved one, so it’s important that you reach out for mental health support.

Personally, I first came across this finding shortly after my suicide attempts, because my “friend” (who I would later find out was an emotional abuser) tried to convince me that I was being selfish by trying to die by suicide because of suicide clusters. They tried to explain how if I died by suicide then I was putting others at risk and I might push other people over the edge towards their own suicides.

Whilst the wording was completely wrong by this so-called friend, it’s important that, if you are feeling suicidal after the death of a loved one, that you recognise these feelings, you don’t suffer in silence and you get the support you need.

You’re important, you’re loved and your loved one wouldn’t want you to die.

Can Someone Develop PTSD From a Loved One’s Suicide?

It turns out that research shows that suicide survivors are at an increased risk of developing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after a loved one’s suicide. Especially, if the method was violent, if there was a history of suicide attempts that increased the survivor’s anxiety as well as if the survivor was the person who found the body.

When this happens and if a survivor is experiencing any symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, it’s important that they get support from a mental health practitioner.

How Do You Get Support After Suicide Loss?

As I’ve mentioned repeatedly so far in this psychology podcast episode, anyone who has lost someone to suicide can benefit from mental health and social support in whatever form is best for them. For most people, a therapist is the best option because they are trained mental health professionals. Yet other people prefer getting support from their community or a support group, and whilst I will always push people towards mental health professionals, you need to do what’s best for you at the end of the day.

In addition, there might be times when seeking professional mental health support is unbearable or too much, so people might be able to cope with the support of friends, loved ones, partners and other important close others. Equally, you can get a close other to sit with you whilst you fill in the referral forms and so on.

The most important thing when it comes to getting support and coping with suicide loss is that you have a safe space where you can process your painful emotions, express any conflicted feelings and come to terms with your loved one’s passing.

Again, I want to use a fictionalised example from Given because it takes some of the emotion out of this information whilst giving us a great example at the same time. For example, as much as I love Mafuyu, you can see how badly he coped with his boyfriend’s suicide because he cut off everyone, he didn’t talk to anyone like his friends and you can see the difference in him compared to his friends 6-months later. Of course, everyone has a different reaction to suicide and Mafuyu and his friends had different relationships with Yuki, but Mafuyu’s friends had each other, music and ways to express themselves after Yuki’s suicide. Mafuyu did not and you can see the negative mental health impacts that had on him in the early part of the anime.

This is why it’s important that you seek out mental health support, so you can heal, you can process your feelings and you can find ways to come to terms with your loved one’s passing.

Since something else that Given shows us is that the longer you leave your processing and healing, the harder it is to express your conflicted feelings and the harder it is to recover. For instance, Mafuyu tried to express himself so many times but he didn’t know how to because he’d isolated himself and he gets better at it as he reconnects with his friends. Yet it takes so much extra effort for him to express himself than it might have if he had spoken to a mental health professional sooner after Yuki’s death.

Finally for this section, you can also get mental health support after suicide loss from suicide hotlines, grief support groups amongst others.

Should I Visit a Support Group After Suicide Loss?

Speaking of suicide loss support groups, visiting these support groups can be effective for combating the profound sense of isolation that suicide survivors typically experience. Since these groups allow you to hear other people’s stories and there can be a great comfort in knowing that there are others going through the same as you within the safe space structure of the group. As well as going to a support group can help you to feel comfortable talking about more confusing emotions, like the relief or anger, that you might not want to share with others.

Additionally, the routine of these regular sessions can be very useful to you because it can help survivors escape the seemingly endless despair and loneliness that can follow a suicide loss. I firmly believe this is even more important if the suicide loss involved a loved one that was a major part of your daily life. For example, if your child died by suicide then you no longer have the daily structure of getting them to school, the school rush, hearing about their day and so on. The extra structure of the support groups can help.

A final benefit is that these support groups can help you to forge bonds with others and get a glimpse into their own recovery process so you can learn about effective coping skills. Then you can start to understand how your own grief can become more manageable over time.

If you want to learn more about the benefits of support groups, please check out my podcast episode, What are The Types of Group Therapy?

For aspiring and qualified clinical psychologists, the main implication for this section is about the importance of adding structure and routine back into the client’s life and breaking the cycle of despair and inaction. I recommend you check out my podcast episode, What is Behavioural Activation for more information.

How Do You Let Friends and Family Know You Need Their Support After Suicide Loss?

After experiencing suicide loss, it’s normal for other people to want to avoid, dance around or simply pretend that the suicide never happened. Whilst this might make the non-survivors feel better because of their own discomfort towards suicide, this isn’t what the survivor needs. Especially, as the love and support of a close other or loved one can be very powerful and sometimes healing to the survivor.

Therefore, to help let your friends and family members know that you need their support after experiencing suicide loss, you can share resources on how they can best be there for you during this difficult time, you can ask for help more directly and you can stress to them that they don’t need to say the perfect thing. As long as they try their best, as long as they love and support you and as long as they try to look up how to be supportive after suicide loss, then that’s okay.

Most importantly, your friends and family members need to know that you aren’t looking for them to fix what happened. Sometimes all you need is for the family member or friend to simply sit with you and you can talk or not talk.

On the whole, even your best friend or the most empathetic person in your social network might fail to realise just how badly their silence is hurting you. This is why it’s important to let them know that just being present and understanding are critical factors in a survivor’s recovery.

Personally, I understand this section from the perspective of a rape survivor because once I revealed the fact that I was raped, much like how survivors will have to reveal that they’ve lost someone to suicide, people didn’t know how to react. They didn’t want to say the wrong thing, they avoided me and they didn’t realise what I needed. Mainly, I argue that they couldn’t be asked to look up how to support a rape survivor. This applies to survivors of suicide loss too because you will have to tell people point-blank about your needs, your desires and what is best for you in a particular moment. Other people won’t do it for you.

This links into the implications for aspiring and qualified clinical psychologists. One thing that we can do for survivors is to help them work on their self-advocacy, their conflict management skills and we can help the survivor feel confident asking for what they need. They might be too scared or too much of a people-pleaser to want to ask for support and we can help them overcome that so they can recover, heal and thrive.

In terms of educational psychology, if we’re supporting a child survivor of suicide loss then we can do something similar. We can support the child to ask for support at school and in the home too. As well as explore any difficulties or barriers to asking for help that the child experiences.

How Can I Help Someone Else Cope with Suicide Loss?

The very fact that you’re reading or listening to this podcast episode when you haven’t personally experienced suicide loss makes you amazing in my opinion. Since it is a very small minority of people who go out of their way to research how to support their friend, their child or their family member. As a survivor of sexual trauma, thank you for doing this.

As a result, when someone has lost a close other to suicide then it’s very likely that they’re going to be in desperate need of support from the people around them. Sometimes they might ask for the support and other times they won’t for various reasons. This is why it’s important to reach out to the other person regularly, invite them out for a walk or just sit in silence together so they know that they aren’t alone, and if they want to listen about the suicide and what happened, then listen.

Always listen with empathy, compassion and without judgement.

In addition, if you find that the survivor keeps focusing on a specific detail then that’s okay, normal and understandable. This is them trying to process it. As well as don’t be afraid to say their loved one’s name or ask them point-blank about how they’re coping with the death, because if you dance around the topic then this will only increase the feelings of grief and isolation in the survivor.

Furthermore, hopefully you’ve never lost someone to suicide and if this is the case, then you need to remember that it is emotionally devastating in ways that will probably be overwhelming for you. The emotions, like the grief, the anger and the confusion, will be intense, your friend or loved one might start lashing out, crying or just seem to shut down at times. This is normal, okay and understandable given what’s happened to them.

When this happens, it’s important for you to recognise that you need to prepare yourself mentally for the strength of their emotions and accept that their grief will come in waves. This should help you to be as supportive as possible, and reading books, listening to podcast episodes and watching videos on suicide loss can be very helpful.

Finally, for some survivors of suicide loss, even more so in the immediate aftermath of the grief and suicide loss, they might struggle with so-called simple day-to-day tasks, as well as they might be too overwhelmed to make the funeral arrangements. When this happens, it can be very kind and compassionate for you to offer practical support like dropping off meals, taking on childcare, help to plan the funeral or find your close other a support group in the local area.

These actions might seem tiny but you’ll be helping the survivor more than you could ever know.

If we link this to educational and clinical psychology, then where my mind goes is if we’re supporting a client in therapy and then they have a friend or family member who goes through suicide loss. After we ensure that the client is okay in themselves and they’ve processed their feelings about the suicide, then it might be an idea to spend some time in a session to help the client deal with their close other’s experience of suicide loss. Since if they’re worried or anxious about their close other then I do not believe that they will have the emotional and mental energy to focus on themselves and their own recovery. Or at least, not as much as usual, so by discussing how to support a friend or close other after a suicide loss, we can help to support the client so we can return our attention back to therapy.

Another added benefit of the client supporting their friend or family member after suicide loss is that it gives them purpose, they should hopefully be thanked so they might feel good about themselves and most importantly, their actions will be maintaining their friendships. All important factors in maintaining their mental health for the long term.

Clinical Psychology Conclusion

This psychology podcast episode might have been inspired by Mafuyu from Given and maybe a little desire to simply reach out to people like that fictional character, hug them and let them know that everything will be okay in the end. As well as, as a suicide survivor myself who is thrilled and really happy to still be alive, I’m glad that I’ve learnt not only the emotional devastation that my successful suicide would have caused my close friends and family members, but most importantly how to support others in the future as a friend, as an aspiring educational or clinical psychologist and as a family member too.

From learning about how suicide grief is so uniquely painful to why survivors didn’t pick up on their loved one’s pain and despair, how to receive professional support and so much more. We learnt a lot about suicide loss in this episode.

Therefore, my parting comment will be, as much as I love Mafuyu’s character, please do not end up like him. Please do not isolate yourself, dear listener, please do not avoid your friends, your family members and your social support network, reach out to them. Get professional support and learn to heal, recover and thrive.

It might take months, years or longer, but it will be okay in the end.

Extended Note 

Dear listener, I have a final parting message for you if you've experienced suicide loss. Even though I admit that I'm still on the emotional high of watching "Given: To The Sea", I want to say a final thing. 

You aren't alone, dear listener, and your loved one or friend are not gone forever. They might no longer physically be with you. You might never hear them laugh, say your name or walk next to you again. Yet it doesn't mean you'll forget them. 

Your loved one or friend will always be remembered and live inside you. 

They will always be in your heart, and that isn't a bad thing. 

They will always be in your memories, and that isn't a bad thing. 

They will always be with you, and that's something to celebrate. 

Sometimes you might feel that by ending their life, your loved one or friend abandoned or left you and they left never to return.

But you will find them again. You are not lost, and they are not lost after suicide. 

Whether it is through music like Mafuyu where he finds his boyfriend Yuki again, or in your photos, your art or your shared memories together, you will find your loved one or friend again. 

And together, with them in your heart, you can move forward and live, thrive and love again. 

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Clinical Psychology References and Further Reading

Brown, H. L., Selbe, S. M., Flesaker, M., Rosellini, A. J., Maple, M., Gradus, J. L., & Cerel, J. (2024). The impact of relationship type and closeness on mental health following suicide loss. Suicide and Life‐threatening Behavior, 54(3), 479-488.

Delgado, H., Goergen, J., Tyler, J., & Windham, H. (2025). A loss by suicide: The relationship between meaning-making, post-traumatic growth, and complicated grief. OMEGA-Journal of death and dying, 92(2), 955-972.

Goulah-Pabst, D. M. (2023). Suicide loss survivors: Navigating social stigma and threats to social bonds. OMEGA-Journal of death and dying, 87(3), 769-792.

Hofmann, L., & Wagner, B. (2025). Understanding the complexity of suicide loss: PTSD, complex PTSD and prolonged grief disorder following suicide bereavement. Death Studies, 49(7), 897-906.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/suicide/coping-after-suicide-loss

Jordan, J. R. (2020). Lessons learned: Forty years of clinical work with suicide loss survivors. Frontiers in psychology, 11, 766.

Levi-Belz, Y., & Ben-Yaish, T. (2022). Prolonged grief symptoms among suicide-loss survivors: The contribution of intrapersonal and interpersonal characteristics. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(17), 10545.

Mary McDaniel, B., Daly, P., Pacheco, C. L., & Crist, J. D. (2022). Experiences with suicide loss: A qualitative study. Clinical nursing research, 31(8), 1491-1499.

Mayer, L., Puschner, N., Votruba, N., Rüsch, N., & Oexle, N. (2023). Social reactions after disclosing suicide loss among women: A qualitative study. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 44(6), 451.

Oexle, N., & Sheehan, L. (2020). Perceived social support and mental health after suicide loss. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 41(1), 65.

Oexle, N., Feigelman, W., & Sheehan, L. (2020). Perceived suicide stigma, secrecy about suicide loss and mental health outcomes. Death Studies, 44(4), 248-255.

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