A Better Pill To Swallow
Just a spoonful of humor helps the medicine go down. Inspired by his brother’s suicide David unleashes his outlandish banter and passion for mental health with his good friends and experts alike. He challenges the over-medicated status quo, asking questions and exploring new holistic alternatives with his guests from a wide array of experience and discipline.
A Better Pill To Swallow
36. The Grief of Losing A Child: "You Lose The Future"
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A healthy baby. A seizure in the middle of the night. And a reality no parent is prepared to face. Susan Weissman shares the story of losing her son Nathan just weeks before his second birthday — what it was like to bring him home knowing he would die, the silence and discomfort that followed, and the long, uneven path of learning to live again.
We talk about denial, marriage under strain, faith, anger, ritual, and the myth that grief has a timeline. About what actually helps when someone you love is gone — and what absolutely doesn’t.
This is a conversation about integration. About carrying loss without being defined by it. And about why the only way forward is through.
