Life After Suicide - CIC support group

17/02/2025

💔..... it's important to talk

05/11/2024

Support group
Tomorrow night 7pm to 9pm, please know you are not alone

01/10/2024

Tomorrow evening 7pm tp 9pm.... it's the hardest thing walking inside the door for the first time, but you are not alone.... we understand.

10/09/2024

Su***de Prevention Day 2024

To those who do not understand what it’s like to feel so low, that su***de feels like the only way out, for those that are going through it right now. please, please reach out. Your friends and family need you. It isn't weak to talk and you don't need to be strong. Be Kind to yourself....

Anyone who has lost someone to su***de/mental health, will only be able to understand the heartbroking pain, the sick feeling in your stomach, the questions you have and the unanswered questions. It is a feeling like no other. You never heal, it is with you for the rest of your life, and a pain that doesn't leave.
After being through this myself and not knowing a pain like it I deicide to open and run my own CIC support group "life after su***de". A place for individuals to talk freely and feel they are not not alone.

Su***de is not a choice, most of the time these people don’t want to die, just for their pain to end.
You don’t need to have a solutions to a persons problems, just been there and show them you care. Checking in on them.... don't take loved one of granted...
When was the last time you checked in with a family member, friend, loved one??... life is busy, we all say........ but I don't have time, I must message them, where has time gone, I was meant to message.... it takes two minutes (do it as you're watching tv). Don't live with the, I should have done more.
I keep thinking your going to walk in the door, like it's all a dream and I'm going to wake up. I miss you loads and life really isn't the same without you.

There is help out there and you are not alone.... most importantly you matter!!

Life after su***de CIC support group
Samaritans - 116 123 or text SHOUT - 85258
Papyrus (under 35 years old) - 0800 068 4141
Mind - www.mind.org.uk
Andy’s man club - www.andysmanclub.co.uk

29/08/2024

Thank you to the beach hut magazine for printing.....it's ok not to be ok, it's ok to be scared and it's ok to get help and support....

11/08/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/N74ukYVNjttyNMtN/

06/08/2024

Tomorrow evening (Wednesday the 7th).... please come along.... a safe place, you are not alone....

30/06/2024

Support group this Wednesday (the first of the month)..... you are not alone... let's Support each other....

Exeter RD&E hospital, found my poster.......

12/06/2024

First night....

12/06/2024

First group tonight!
7pm, please come along.
Parking outside, right opposite the beach.

04/06/2024

The first support group is a week tomorrow. Please don't feel like you are alone...

07/05/2024

A few of you know already I have been working on my own support group. Well, it has been given the go-ahead.......
I am opening up a CIC group to support individuals affected by su***de. The aim is to bring peers together, to break the stigma, and fight su***de as a team. For people to feel they are not alone!
A safe space, to be open and honest about thoughts and feelings, or simply just attend and listen.
I have learnt first hand the devastating affect su***de can have on an individual and their families, and so I want to make it my mission to support others like myself, in bringing people and families together, to ensure they are not alone. For others to understand the way they are feeling is normal. There are always unanswered questions when a loved one suffers/has suffered from this unpredictable illness, and although those answers may never be answered, support will be there, and show you there can be light at the end of what feels like a long and very dark tunnel.
Losing a loved one to su***de can feel like one of the lowest things you feel by yourself, and no matter how much people try they don't/can't understand.
Even though I don't know what the future has instore for me or where my journey goes nexts, I do know I'm trying my best to help others.

Sadly, but to no surprise, the number of people who are taking their own life is
increasing,
with a 6% rise in 2023 compared to 2022 (ONS, 2024)

Let's bring a community together, to talk, to understand and love.

This group has been setup in honer of my partner, who I miss every day..... hope you're proud. I may have good moments, hours, or days, but sadly, this will always be a part of my life and journey. It is something which doesn't just go.
The support from everyone who I talk to about the group, from banks, to charities, to friends, ("a much needed group, need more, well done for helping others" ect). It has just been so overwhelming. I would like to thank the wonderful people who I have had around me (especially Anne-Marie and Ali for your help). You believed in me more than I believed in myself. I have no idea what I am doing, I'm a deer in headlights, I'm learning as I go, but most of all, I'm trying.

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