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Survivors of Suicide Services

Grief counseling after a suicide

Survivors are those who have lost someone they loved or respected to suicide
Recovering from the death of a loved one is a long and painful process. Surviving the death of a loved one by suicide often means trying to cope with a confusing mixture of feelings that time and everyday sources of support may not ease.

Suppressed Grief Does Not Disappear
Although family and friends may be supportive for a period after the death, there comes a time when they are no longer able to cope with the survivor's grief. They may want the survivor to "get back to normal" before he/she is ready. At this point the SOS group can be helpful in facilitating the grief process.

The Suicide and Crisis Service of Santa Clara County offers a means to resolve these feelings of grief through an on-going series of support groups. These adult support groups, meet once a week.

Here survivors have the chance to know and talk to others who are recovering from a similar experience. Together, survivors share practical solutions to everyday problems. More importantly, survivors learn that they are not alone--that others who have survived the death of a loved one by suicide understand.

Here survivors have the chance to know and talk to others who are recovering from a similar experience. Together, survivors share practical solutions to everyday problems. More importantly, survivors learn that they are not alone--that others who have survived the death of a loved one by suicide understand.

Questions Survivors often deal with

• Why?
• Am I going crazy?
• Am I to blame?
• What will happen now?
• Can I live through this pain?
• How could he/she do this to me?
• How do I tell others about this suicide?
• What are people thinking?
  
  

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Survivors of Suicide Program (SOS)
Phone: (408) 885-6216

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