A mother and father dead. A son arrested. A community in shock.
Hollywood is reeling from the deaths of comedy legend Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer, after the two were found dead in their Los Angeles home Sunday. Their son Nick has been arrested as a suspect in their deaths, according to police.
When faced with such horrific tragedy, mental health experts say, all kinds of feelings can arise. Shock. Grief. Anger. Numbness. An event of this magnitude and family tragedies in general often leave people struggling to make sense of what happened and figuring out how to chart a path forward.
"It changes everything," psychotherapist Stephanie Sarkis says, describing the Reiner tragedy as "utter loss" on multiple levels.
There's "the loss of who you thought this person was − the person that committed the act − and then also the loss of the victims and then the loss of the family unit," she adds. "You don't get closure from something like this."
