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Shock By the time you begin reading this book, you are probably through with shock, the first stage of acute grief. During this time you felt numb and cold, as if you were far away from other people and out of touch with reality. Your mind was in shock, just as your body would be if you suffered a serious physical injury. In this stage, your mind anesthetized you against the tremendous blow that hit you. You may have felt as if you were in a dream, helpless to change the events happening around you.
Other survivors report hundreds of physical symptoms that appeared in the weeks and months following the suicide. These begin during the stage of shock, with complaints like those about which you read above. Survivors complain about things like nervousness and fatigue, general tiredness, breaking out in rashes and hives, distorted vision, upset stomachs and spastic colons; even the symptoms of asthma and rheumatoid arthritis appear in the aftershock of suicide. Women report menstrual difficulty as common among their physical problems.
This was shown in America during the Great Depression of the 1930's. Currently, in its rate of reported suicides, the United States ranks in about the middle of the list of countries reporting to the United Nations. Austria, West Germany, Hungary, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland report significantly higher rates than ours. Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain indicate far fewer suicides than are reported by the United States. Unlearning What Is Not So about Suicide A learned professor of mine once remarked that he knew of nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.