Even though it may seem difficult, maintaining contact with other people is especially important during the stress-filled months after a loved one’s suicide. When you feel ready, begin to go on with your life. Children experience many of the feelings of adult grief, and are particularly vulnerable to feeling abandoned and guilty. Reassure them that the death was not their fault. Listen to their questions, and try to offer honest, straightforward, age-appropriate answers.

Mental disorders are common in the United States and internationally. An estimated 26 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. When applied to the 2004 U.S. Census residential population estimate Mental-Illness for ages 18 and older, this figure translates to 58 million people.

The mind is a very unpredictable and interesting thing. It could help you have a good time, enjoy your life one minute and it would take all that away the next minute.

Clinical depression can make people miserable and life almost unbearable, leaving you with little or no desire to do even the most mundane things in life. It is as if you were just going thru the motions of life, with no purpose whatsoever and unable to see the proverbial “light at the end of the tunnel”. In some cases, it leads to suicide.

Have you ever felt this weird sensation in your mind? It seems as if you were going crazy. As if there is a “big loud, yet sad party going on in your mind, but nobody invited you to it and you are not the organizer.