Kate - Interview 7  

Kate - Interview 7

Age at Interview: 55
Sex: Female
Background: Kate is a nurse. She is divorced and has 3 children (2 grown up). She had 2 other daughters who died. Ethnic background/nationality: White English

Brief outline:Kate’s life has been devastated by the deaths of two of her daughters. They took their own lives by hanging, in 2006 & 2007. Kate has had support from family, friends and the church and says that answering emails from members of POS has also helped.

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After her girls died, Kate’s seven year old son, Hannes, was seen by someone from Jigsaw4u, who suggested that he should see a child psychiatrist.

 



I worry about my other children. We, we worry as mothers about the stranger; we worry about the road. And now I have, I have a, awful, dreadful fear of one of them doing the same. My young son was seen by a group called Jigsaw, who go into the school and they, they deal with children and bereavement. And the lady that sees him thinks that, feels that he needs to see a medical, a doctor, so Hannes is going to be seen by the children’s psychiatrist because he’s suppressing, he’s trying to block it all out whereas he should talk about it openly.

 

Who suggested Jigsaw?


It was by CAMHS, by the crisis team because they deal specifically with children…


Yes.


… with bereavement.


So, an, an individual person from Jigsaw met your son?


Went into the school, just played with him and then just asked him sort appropriate questions, and talked about the girls [who died]. But she felt that he was trying to suppress his feelings and she says it’s, it’s not healthy, not a healthy thing because later on, in years to come, these could explode. And that’s how I feel about anti-depressants, I feel that, and as I said to my doctor, I never asked him for anti-depressants and I, he wouldn’t give them to me. And I said to him, “I’m not depressed, I’m grieving.”

Bereavement due to suicide
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