How does a teenager get put at risk of expiriencing suicide after someone has taken there life in there family?

Answer 1

A teenager who loses a member of their family by suicide can be called 'a suicide Survivor'. More generally a "suicide survivor" is an individual who remains alive following the death by suicide of someone with whom they had a significant relationship or emotional bond.

Cain (1972: 12) wrote about the predicament of many survivors of suicide, including, in some but by no means all cases "their torment and their desperate need for psychological assistance". He mentioned survivors' reactions that have included reality distortion, fractured family relationships, guilt, disturbed self-concept, impotent rage, mis-identification with the suicide, depression and self-destructiveness, search for meaning and incomplete mourning.

Some, all or none of these reactions may occur in an individual survivor of family suicide. Each person's response is unique as indeed is each act of suicidal behaviour. But it is known and accepted that, complex psychological responses containing 'guilt, shame, unmet yearning and unresolved grief' (Cain, 1972: 14) may, in an unknown but limited number of cases, lead to pathological depression that could be acted out in 'implacably self-destructive ways of life...and direct suicidal behaviour - suicidal impulses, fantasies, threats, preoccupation, repeated suicide attempts and completed suicides'.

Significantly, Cain (1972: 14) states that survivors frequently volunteer and often helpfully serve as lay staff in suicide prevention agencies.

If you have experienced a family suicide, you may be able to help yourself and others by seeking professional psychotherapeutic support, in order to come to terms in a healthy way with your serious loss and in recovery, to continue to live your life fully and productively and so to deliver all of your potential as a human being.