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When family members share guilt over a friend's death

My sister and I both feel guilty about how our friend Jamie died by suicide, but we're blaming ourselves for completely different things and can't seem to comfort each other — we just keep reopening each other's wounds.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are drowning in parallel shame, each convinced their particular failure was the decisive one.

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“Where Are You with The death of a friend?”

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