Desperate...pls help!!! worried for my sister

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hi everyone

My sister lost her dear son last year...anyhow she has gone from being ok to extremely angry hostile and has been doing things and acting strange lately, can anyone tell me the symptoms of a nervous breakdown or someone who is suicidal..I understand that this may upset me but please be brutally honest with me, I am so worried for her

thx for reading

When DD died, I tried my hardest to run away...don't know what from (had fabulous DP and DS) and I don't know what to, my sister pratically restrained me at one point. And I drank.

I didn't 'officially' have a breakdown, but I'd say I came close.

If you are concerned you have to call her GP. They will talk you through options.

I understand that you are worried and it is hard to gauge from your post how bad things are and how strange she is acting but don't forget the huge role anger plays in grief.

It is important that she's allowed to feel that anger and feels supported in it.

If she talks about ending it take it seriously and persuade her to see a doctor.

She may still be grieving from her loss. My dad died while I was heavily pregnant and I definitely did not deal with the grief at the time and it is only 2 years later that I got some help after I came to the conclusion I needed it (I became very angry and very sad). I used Cruse (I think I mentioned them on another thread a couple of weeks ago) and they really helped.

Please keep trying to talk to your sister and maybe her GP if you are that concerned.

stages of grief - she may be in anger - or depression

www.york-united-kingdom.co.uk/funerals/grief/

speak to (and try and get her to speak to)
www.childbereavement.org.uk/ or to see local bearevement counsellor - if was specific illness then there may be linked charity who can support