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Surviving Ellen: A Memoir

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How-to Survive Your Child's Suicide

Greta Eichel’s Surviving Ellen is part autobiography, part memoir, part eulogy. With unflinching honesty, Eichel searches her own history for the seeds of her daughter Ellen’s suicide and for signs of life after Ellen’s death. … see full wiki

Tags: Books, Nonfiction, Death, Suicide, Rebellious Children, Parenting Fragile Children

Author: Greta Eichel

Publisher: Neshui Pub

Date Published: January 2003

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High Maintenance Child Alert

Aug 13, 2009

by NYWriterBarbaraGarro

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Like its title, this book is about the the strength to survive, whatever it takes, whatever is necessary, however long it takes to move forward.

Greta Eichel bears her suffering soul.

Everyone interacts with famiilies. Every family has secrets. Sometimes, a high maintenance, self-destructive, low self-esteem chld is one of them. Parents who have children like this often move into denial to survive, calling the behavior a phase, teen trauma, and/or peer influence.

Eichel's family has an abundance of secrets that get more deliciously intriguing by the page. Yes, Surviving Ellen is a page-turner that catches you.

Most importantly, this book is a book about love, mainly about rthe relationships of people who love someone who did not know how to love them back. The Socratic question for the reader to answer in this book is Do you know how to love the people you love in a way that feels loving to them?

And, it is also a love story about two people, Greta and Stu, who knew how to love each other from the beginning and are still at it and going strong.

I believe this book could save many parents from having to survive their child's suicide.

Even those who have near-perfect children may benefit from it to help grandchildren or step-family members.

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