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When suicide follows normal parental discipline

My teenage son killed himself after I grounded him for failing grades and took away his phone, and I replay that argument every day wondering if I caused this.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The randomness of timing can make routine conflicts feel like the cause of irreversible tragedy.

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“Where Are You with Grief and relief — complex feelings after difficult deaths?”

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