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How to cope when your loss makes others uncomfortable

My brother died by suicide last year and people avoid me at social gatherings like grief is contagious and I am tired of pretending I am okay.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The secondary trauma of being socially abandoned because your pain reminds others of life's fragility.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Loneliness — the epidemic and the experience?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.