Nadia’s Work with Survivors

Anxious People

Nadia turns her own survival into a profession that helps people left behind by suicide find company and language for guilt.

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A Teenager Without Words A Teenager Without Words from "Anxious People". A Teenager Without Words Pain remains unseen Nadia feels persistently sad and believes she is alone in her emotions.

A Teenager Without Words from "Anxious People". A Teenager Without Words Pain remains unseen Nadia feels persistently sad and believes she is alone in her emotions.

A Teenager Without Words Pain remains unseen Nadia feels persistently sad and believes she is alone in her emotions. She cannot explain what is wrong and hides her distress from her family. The bridge becomes an option She stands on the same railing where the Man on the bridge died. Her plan is not fully formed, but the possibility of ending her pain feels close.

Survival Without Certainty Survival Without Certainty from "Anxious People". Survival Without Certainty A sudden intervention Jack runs toward Nadia and pulls her down.

Survival Without Certainty from "Anxious People". Survival Without Certainty A sudden intervention Jack runs toward Nadia and pulls her down.

Survival Without Certainty A sudden intervention Jack runs toward Nadia and pulls her down. She wakes in hospital with a head injury and tells the nurses she had been taking a photograph. A life redirected Nadia cannot know what she would have done if Jack had not arrived. That uncertainty leads her to spend years thinking about the difference between survival and loss.

A Career of Listening A Career of Listening from "Anxious People". A Career of Listening A profession chosen Nadia trains as a psychologist and works with people whose pain makes them feel close to an edge.

A Career of Listening from "Anxious People". A Career of Listening A profession chosen Nadia trains as a psychologist and works with people whose pain makes them feel close to an edge.

A Career of Listening A profession chosen Nadia trains as a psychologist and works with people whose pain makes them feel close to an edge. She believes she can offer a way down because she has been there herself. Anxiety carried, not erased She learns that recovery may mean learning to carry anxiety rather than becoming free of it. Her practice is shaped by the limits of what one person can do for another.

A Camp for the Bereaved A Camp for the Bereaved from "Anxious People". A Camp for the Bereaved Survivors meet one another Nadia works at a summer camp for children who have lost a family member to suicide.

A Camp for the Bereaved from "Anxious People". A Camp for the Bereaved Survivors meet one another Nadia works at a summer camp for children who have lost a family member to suicide.

A Camp for the Bereaved Survivors meet one another Nadia works at a summer camp for children who have lost a family member to suicide. The camp gives them company and a place to speak without carrying shame alone. Listening as a form of care She listens often, talks a little, and makes room for laughter. The work extends the support she once needed herself.

The Rescuer Returns The Rescuer Returns from "Anxious People". The Rescuer Returns Jack arrives with a message Jack visits Nadia’s office carrying a photograph of the bridge and a note from Zara.

The Rescuer Returns from "Anxious People". The Rescuer Returns Jack arrives with a message Jack visits Nadia’s office carrying a photograph of the bridge and a note from Zara.

The Rescuer Returns Jack arrives with a message Jack visits Nadia’s office carrying a photograph of the bridge and a note from Zara. Nadia recognizes him as the boy who pulled her from the railing. Two lives meet again The reunion gives both of them a chance to understand the past together. It does not turn Jack into the sole reason Nadia survived; Zara’s note insists that Nadia saved herself too.

The week after the Man on the bridge dies

The day Jack pulls her from the railing

The years after the bridge incident

Six months before the hostage crisis

Spring after the hostage crisis