One of these was The Healing Place. These support groups experienced a disruption due to COVID, and then were shuttered with the early withdrawal of the hospital system from the Western Wisconsin area.
Now, people who received such support are trying to continue providing support to a group that they say need it in one of their darkest moments. Steve Wagener is one such person. He found the suicide grief support group by Googling, and attended that and therapy to try to deal with the loss of his son. The Healing Place, and those receiving care there, experienced the sudden jolt with COVID in , with both Royce and Wagener stating that those participating receiving mixed messages as to when โ or how โ they could have sessions at The Healing Place.
In cases like COVID or even now after the closures, though, Royce stated that supports groups like this are a poor fit for online meeting venues like Zoom. Both Wagener and Royce received training sessions through the HSHS system to help facilitate through The Healing Place, but with COVID uncertainties and, later, with the HSHS closures, they both said that they were as much in the dark as everyone else working at the hospital in terms of what that meant for any of the support groups operating through The Healing Place.
This has required many things including finding a new venue. Wagener stated hope yet concern at the same time since the results of the survey were not expected until May of He also pointed to several studies showing a much higher statistical likelihood of those bereaved from the suicide of a loved one considering suicide themselves.
She said that it was also invaluable to be around people who have experienced that same situation. They support you. You support them. I can do it. We can do it together. Dear Abby advises a woman who had an affair and what she should do to heal her relationship with her family. Security cameras allegedly caught the friend "inspecting every drawer, cupboard and nook [and] cranny," the woman shared on Reddit.
