b'They can also suggest books, films, or coping strategies that were particularly helpful in navigating their own grief journey.Whether youve lost a partner, family member, friend, co-worker, or anyone else to whom you were close, Healing Conversations can provide perspective and understanding.To learn more, visit afsp.org/HealingConversations.Complicated Grief Most suicide loss experiences have a degree of complexity due to the very nature of suicide and the complexity of human relationships. What we know about suicide grief is that there is not a set timetable or schedule for how you experience grief-related emotions. We do know, however, that the intensity of those emotions, i.e. how strongly they are felt, does tend to change over time. As we integrate the loss into our daily living, we naturally begin to think of, and connect to, aspects of the persons life other than how they died. We form a connection to the person we have lost, beyond their suicide death, and begin to recall memories associated with their life and the connection we had to them while they lived. This process can take considerable time. As time passes, many loss survivors find that while they never forget about the suicide loss, they are able to resume a connection to life (albeit changed) and connect to positive memories of the deceased. Many suicide loss survivors are able to integrate the loss with some support from peers, family, friends and their communities.Some suicide loss survivors, however, experience a type of grief that may benefit from more direct mental health support. The term complicated grief refers to a grief reaction in which the individual seems stuck at the same level of intensity of emotions (or one specific emotion) related to the loss, and this is unchanging over a long period of time: at least six months 22 Surviving a Suicide Loss'