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Good article on grief, Copa, Cedar, anyone interested!
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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 657880" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>Thank you for posting this SWOT. It brings up some very pertinent points and I think very timely ones.</p><p></p><p>As someone who has not lost a child to mental illness and/or addiction, but who has lost a spouse to physical illness.</p><p></p><p>I think it timely to remind parents that the descent of a child into mental illness/addiction is in fact a death of a kind, except that in most cases, it is a death without a finite ending. There is no "there" from which one can logically go on.</p><p></p><p>Instead one must "detach" and make their own "there" and go on from that artificial point. I honestly think that my "there": planning the memorial, reading the eulogy, picking up the ashes, was easier in some respects than what the parents here go through. I had a definite ending and a definite beginning to work with.</p><p></p><p>So many of you do not.</p><p></p><p>You are in my thoughts and heart daily</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 657880, member: 1963"] Thank you for posting this SWOT. It brings up some very pertinent points and I think very timely ones. As someone who has not lost a child to mental illness and/or addiction, but who has lost a spouse to physical illness. I think it timely to remind parents that the descent of a child into mental illness/addiction is in fact a death of a kind, except that in most cases, it is a death without a finite ending. There is no "there" from which one can logically go on. Instead one must "detach" and make their own "there" and go on from that artificial point. I honestly think that my "there": planning the memorial, reading the eulogy, picking up the ashes, was easier in some respects than what the parents here go through. I had a definite ending and a definite beginning to work with. So many of you do not. You are in my thoughts and heart daily [/QUOTE]
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