This powerful piece recounts a mother's experience setting her Christmas table for the first time since losing her son to suicide. It poignantly highlights the amplified grief during the holidays while offering a message of hope and urging those struggling to reach out for help.
Christmas is one of the times of the year that magnifies sadness as well as happiness. On the first Christmas since the loss of her son to suicide, one mother wrote to the Ryan Tubridy Show back in 2018 about her experience and her words were so powerful, we wanted to share them again.
Do not let this temporary darkness blind your hope for the future. There is no situation that cannot be resolved with help. There are people you can talk to and people who can help; your family, your teacher, your colleague, your friend, your doctor, a counsellor at the end of the phone. Please talk to someone. However upsetting it will be to do this, the pain and sadness caused by suicide are immeasurable.
Suicide is so raw and brutal and final. You are worthwhile; you are a very precious person to someone, your life is worth living, you have so much ahead of you. If you die by suicide, you leave behind so many people who will live with the horror, the pain, and the absolute and utter devastation that suicide brings for the rest of their lives.
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