In a city the size of mine - about 16,000 - can a couple of suicides over a period of 90 days to be considered an epidemic? I would say so.
Not a few Christians have contacted me from this tragedy happened, the struggle of people in and out of suicide and its impact on an eternal reward, among other concerns. They included the wife of a recent suicide victim. Like a certificate of employment, Chaplain, I have several ministerial posts and guidance materials by mail andA recent article presents some shock statistics on suicide and its impact on those left behind.
For example, there are 30,000 suicides in America each year, leaving 118 000 survivors a year. There are currently 4.5 million survivors are living in the U.S. alone. There are 750,000 emergency room treatment each year because of suicide attempts. A third of all Jr. High and High School Kids are considering suicide. 24 ton 30 children die every day by suicide. someone every 2 minutes inU.S. attempts suicide every 18 minutes someone succeeds. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people between 15 and 24. Increasing suicide rates with age, with the highest rate found among white American men age 65 years.
Eighty percent of Christians have left the changes brought in their churches or services to the public to stop all together. I remember as a teenager, a woman died in our church, her husband, and as a child, I noticed that I have rarely seenWidow engaged in a conversation with other members of the church before or after the service. Eventually, she was gone. There is great ignorance in the church - a feeling of inadequacy - that the average person keeps them in strengthening and comforting those left behind. The fact is that they want to talk. Devi. Some are angry at God or angry with the church. You are confused. You are loved, was not killed. No, they chose death with no apparent consideration of the feelings and needs of those who wouldsoon leave behind. Mourn with those who fight the same stages of grief as those of other types of death only with greater intensity and in a cycle that usually goes for a whole year.
Those who actually see the body of advice and prayer, in an attempt to request the arrest of the film to see her play in their heads as they instinctively try and come up with a different ending. They fight too often with feelings of guilt, sense of failure, anger, denial, too ... and often sodevastating excludes normal coping mechanisms, and frightening, "What's wrong with me?" Feelings.
Unfortunately it is very common for friends and family of survivors, they refuse. long-term friendships, now more than ever necessary, are often aborted. Some may even avoid the guilt of the survivors, open or subtle accusations. immediate family and sometimes blame each other and the whole family can change the structures and can not be reconciled.
UnresolvedThe pain can cause health problems and some of the survivors, leading to suffer what is called "video questions" (they were unlucky enough to have actually seen the body, often in a terrible state), suicidal thoughts himself. Nightmares, insomnia, the movie is playing again and again, day and night.
good support groups are needed. There's an elephant in the living room that we do not - not - to dance. According to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and StatisticalManual of Mental Disorders, the level of stress due to suicide is assessed at the level of the disaster, which corresponds to a concentration camp experience!
Suicide is often perceived as undesirable, even "dirty." It 's like a cowardly way out, seen by many.
We need to encourage the survivors among us, to save her life! Suicide is not a permanent thing. like any trauma, it is a thing of the past with every second. You can not "build a camp there," like a preacherhe said. After all, as the Good Book says, "'came to pass."
Healing is a process and we need to ensure that their course. In supporting roles, we must not allow the survivors to resist this process alone. The survivors can not change the final, to re-live the moment. Although you can not erase their memories, they can certainly be diluted, reducing its crippling effect. How? By filling their schedule with service to others and read positive, uplifting, encouragingLiterature. Work a crossword puzzle. Volunteer. Mind your contribution! Sad movies are a no-no!
We will never know the answer to all the "why?" Questions and we must accept that as fact. The fact is - and this is from them that there was - one day you will look back on progress you have made and you will be amazed. Day, stuck in this nightmare, there were no casualties. They had nothing to say. No other choice. To become the victim is a choice.
We are peopleBE-buildings, not human DO-chin. You must learn to be a survivor, not only to survive, while TRY feel like the living dead themselves. As a survivor, said: "You can do this, HRD is a struggle, but life is tough, so what's new focus does not mean impossible.?".
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