Break the Silence on Suicide with Poetry this World Suicide Prevention Day
Losing a loved one to suicide can be the most devastating thing to happen in a family. Coping strategies become vital. What can they do? How can they go on? New research argues that engaging with emotion is crucial to overcoming loss. It warns against using ‘medical management to quell the impact of loss’, arguing that ‘medical warfare rends grief an act of defeat rather than a necessary response to loss.’ Instead, it uses poetry as a means of exploring the emotions of loss. Throughout the article, poetry is recognized as a form of legitimate expression; ‘a means of telling that