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When guilt consumes you after losing a child to suicide

My teenager died by suicide last year and I replay every conversation we had in the weeks before, wondering if I missed something or said the wrong thing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The parent searches obsessively for causation in a tragedy that may have had none they could control.

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