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Suicide, mental health and bereavement
It’s no longer acceptable for mental health staff to claim they ‘don’t do’ bereavement, writes RUTH HUNT
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IT HAS now been categorically proved those exposed to suicide are at a greater risk than those not, yet despite this knowledge, mental health services are failing their patients who are suffering from complicated grief.
As Antonia Murphy says in Out of This World: “Suicide leaves its mark on those left behind in a particular, peculiar and devastating way.”
For such patients, issues and problems they could face as a result of this loss include:
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