Goodbye, My Son

Coming to terms with death by mental illness

Photo by Tim Marshall on Unsplash

Before we proceed, I need to warn you. My son died by suicide, and this article is a mother’s initial attempts to deal with it.

This piece has been hard to write, and I really don’t want to face the subject directly. Nor am I too keen on telling the world about it. But I don’t write in a journal. In my experience of the past, a journal…