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How to Survive Suicide: What nobody told me about how to survive losing my son to suicide by [Patricia Spencer]

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Patricia Spencer

How to Survive Suicide: What nobody told me about how to survive losing my son to suicide Kindle Edition

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When my 17 year old son died by suicide in 2010, I got sucked into the bowels of hell.
Eighteen months later, my life was unrecognizable. My 23 year marriage had dissolved, I had left the country, and I was suicidal myself. My life was shattered, strewn around me like wreckage from a plane crash. Everything I had worked for and believed in was gone. I didn't care if I lived or died. I had nothing left from which to draw.
In searching for guidance, I found some books about grief in general (which don’t address the many suicide-specific issues of bereavement), a couple of suicide-related ones written from a dispassionate distance, and one voyeuristic book that was little more than a litany of disturbing descriptions of deaths by suicide.
I didn’t find a book that warned me about the interpersonal dynamics that often play out to the detriment of the survivors, or about the mindsets that confound recovery.
I didn’t find a book that assured me that with hard work on my part, this tragedy was not only survivable, but could eventually yield an unexpected bounty of gifts.
This book is rooted in my own experience and my analysis of it once I was able to see past the grief to the world again. It also draws on the patterns I’ve seen in the lives of other survivors who have shared their stories in the suicide survivors recovery group that I have facilitated since 2012.
This book is me, sitting with you, having a conversation about how I and others have gotten through this. It describes the dynamics and mindsets that work against you, the overarching pattern of recovery, and some concrete things you can do to help yourself heal. It’s all from the heart.
This book is the last thing that a person with depression (me) expected to be able to put together: a hopeful book about surviving a terrible tragedy.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0733WP94X
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 21, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4065 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 133 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,038,315 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #4,592 in Personal Transformation
- #27,528 in Personal Transformation Self-Help
- #54,162 in Health, Fitness & Dieting (Kindle Store)

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Patricia Spencer

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I write love stories with soul. I am interested in the human experience, especially as it unfolds in the realms of the heart, spirit, relationships, and identity. I love the romance genre, and write novels that are 'chewy' versus breezy. This is not to say they are heavy -- but rather that they feature strong characters immersed in challenging situations that require them to grow.

That growth process is the core of the story. Readers discover my characters from the inside out -- What are they thinking? Feeling? How are they responding internally to their situations? They explore emotion (and hopefully make you feel it!). My novels feature strong female leads, women who love women. They feature strong character arcs. The love interest is not the same person at the end of the story that she was at the beginning. To attain love, she has had to stretch.

While my stories may place women in contexts affected by difficult issues of our times, and I may thus REFER to such topics, I avoid immersion in anything violent or nasty. My villains stay off-stage as much as possible*.

* My first novel, Day Three (published in 2011), takes place in a war zone and is an exception to this. It is also a man-woman romance.