{"id":44965,"date":"2025-11-14T13:12:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jedfoundation.org\/?p=44965"},"modified":"2025-11-18T09:55:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:55:55","slug":"surviving-suicide-loss-after-years-of-silence-a-sister-finds-her-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jedfoundation.org\/surviving-suicide-loss-after-years-of-silence-a-sister-finds-her-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving Suicide Loss: After Years of Silence A Sister Finds Her Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44966\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44966\" style=\"width: 1308px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44966 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jedfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Chryss-and-Mark-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Chryss and her brother Mark on a plane\" width=\"1308\" height=\"1034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jedfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Chryss-and-Mark-2.jpeg 1308w, https:\/\/jedfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Chryss-and-Mark-2-300x237.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/jedfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Chryss-and-Mark-2-1024x809.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/jedfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Chryss-and-Mark-2-768x607.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1308px) 100vw, 1308px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chryss and her brother, Mark.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chryss felt her chest tighten.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watching her oldest daughter walk through the double doors at her high school for the very first time, Chryss thought: \u201cIt\u2019s going to eat her up. She\u2019s not going to come back out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She thought about going inside to make sure she was OK, to ask someone to look out for her. She realizes today that it was her own childhood that was haunting her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was 2018, nearly 40 years after Chryss lost her older brother, Mark, to suicide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was 15, a high school freshman, funny and high-energy, the kind of brother whose musical tastes became hers. Who shared dozens of quiet moments with his sister. Brushing teeth over the sink. Walking to the school bus. Digging for arrowheads in the summer. Catching frogs.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She was 12. That was the year her childhood ended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For decades afterward, she didn\u2019t talk about him. \u201cI repressed it for maybe 30 years,\u201d she says. \u201cMost people in my life didn\u2019t even know I had a brother.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then one day, two students at a nearby high school died by suicide. Chryss, a reporter with the local paper, watched as editors struggled with speculation. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why would they do that?<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou\u2019re never going to know the answer to that,\u201d she thought. She wrote an opinion piece about her own experiences called \u201cPain That Never Leaves Hits Home.\u201d It ran on the front page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Mark died in 1981, the adults around Chryss didn\u2019t know how to respond. The morning after his death, she was sent to stay with family friends, who sat her down and said: \u201cWhen you go home, be strong for your parents.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Six months later, ABC filmed a national segment on teen suicide at her family\u2019s home in Loveland, Colorado. In the footage, 12-year-old Chryss sits at one end of the couch, her parents at the other.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI remember watching it years later and thinking, why didn\u2019t somebody have their arm around me?\u201d she says. \u201cWhy didn\u2019t anyone hold my hand?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44967\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44967 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/jedfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Chryss-and-Mark-1-731x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Chryss, Mark and their dog\" width=\"640\" height=\"897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jedfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Chryss-and-Mark-1-731x1024.jpeg 731w, https:\/\/jedfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Chryss-and-Mark-1-214x300.jpeg 214w, https:\/\/jedfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Chryss-and-Mark-1-768x1075.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/jedfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Chryss-and-Mark-1.jpeg 942w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chryss, her brother Mark, and their dog Shaggy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her parents grieved differently. Her mother threw herself into activism, speaking publicly about suicide prevention. Her father, an engineer, turned inward. \u201cHe kept his head down. Went fishing.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No one really knew how to talk about suicide, or comfort a child living through it. Chryss found the most comfort from Mark\u2019s friends.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fast forward to when her daughter walked into that high school decades later and the past came rushing back.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI didn\u2019t expect it,\u201d Chryss says. \u201cI saw her go through those doors, and I just couldn\u2019t leave.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the pandemic hit, things got harder. \u201cMy daughter was 15, the same age as Mark. And in my head, that meant I was going to lose her, too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She found a therapist. She started writing again. She began to talk about Mark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy grief was patient,\u201d she says. \u201cIt just waited for me to grow up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, Chryss teaches journalism at Colorado State University. She begins each class with a mental-health check-in: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How\u2019s your roommate? What\u2019s overwhelming you this week?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her students, many of them freshmen, often respond with relief. \u201cThey want to talk about this stuff,\u201d she says. \u201cThey\u2019re not getting it anywhere else.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chryss\u2019s parents still live in the same house where she and Mark grew up. When she visits, she sits and talks to him.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI was always on Mark\u2019s side,\u201d she says. \u201cSomeone should have helped him.\u201d But they didn\u2019t know how back then.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, she\u2019s trying to be that person for others, especially for siblings. \u201cAfter a suicide, everyone says, \u2018your poor parents,\u2019 and that\u2019s true. But siblings are often forgotten mourners,\u201d she says. \u201cThey lose their person.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At sunset each day, Chryss looks to the horizon and continues that conversation with Mark.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI ask him for advice,\u201d she says. \u201cHe\u2019s my biggest champion, my professor, my advocate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forty-four years after his death, she\u2019s written the book she wishes someone had written for her. It\u2019s called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the Top of the Stairs: A Child&#8217;s Story of Losing her Sibling to Suicide<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s where she sat as a 12-year-old, listening to the adults downstairs, waiting for someone to say his name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chryss Cada shared her story as part of JED\u2019s International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day campaign. <a href=\"https:\/\/jedfoundation.org\/survivors-of-suicide-loss-day\">You can read more stories, access resources, and share a memory of your own here<\/a>. You can also visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chryss.com\/\">Chryss\u2019s website<\/a> to learn more about her work.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-text\">\n<p><em>If you or someone you know needs to talk to someone right now, text, call, or chat 988 for a free confidential conversation with a trained counselor 24\/7.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You can also contact the Crisis Text Line by texting \u201cHOME\u201d to 741741.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If this is a medical emergency or if there is immediate danger of harm, call 911 and explain that you need support for a mental health crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chryss felt her chest tighten. 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