Grieving For Our Child Who Experienced Mental Health Problem

One of a series of leaflets published by The Compassionate Friends Our life now and into the future As the weeks and months pass, we will try to pick up the threads of life again. Things will never be the same. At first, and often for some time, it may seem impossible to imagine finding peace of mind. We may struggle to understand what happened, both in terms of our child’s illness and the circumstances of their death. Perhaps we will never have the answers we seek. Yet as time passes, we may find ourselves drawing ever more comfort from the good memories and better times in our child’s life. As we adjust to their absence, we continue to carry them in our thoughts, with our love for them always in our hearts.