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When preventable death creates endless cycles of self-blame

My son died by overdose and I keep obsessing over every conversation we had in his last months wondering what I missed or could have done differently.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Deaths perceived as preventable generate guilt that searches desperately for the moment intervention could have changed everything.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Complicated grief — prolonged grief disorder?”

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