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Regardless of the type of loss you are experiencing, your grief is real. Please place extra priority on taking care of yourself and being easy on how you’re feeling. All you can do is take things one day at a time and to be patient with yourself. You cannot rush grief. Grief needs an outlet
Bereavement is the experience of losing someone important to us. It is characterised by grief, which is the process and the range of emotions we go through as we gradually adjust to the loss. Losing someone important to us can be emotionally devastating - whether that be a partner, family member, friend or pet.
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- What Is Grief?
- The Grieving Process
- The 5 Stages of Grief
- Symptoms of Grief and Loss
- Types of Grief and Loss
- Finding Support For Grief and Loss
- Taking Care of Yourself as You Grieve
Grief is a natural response to loss. It’s the emotional suffering you feel when something or someone you love is taken away. Often, the pain of loss can feel overwhelming. You may experience all kinds of difficult and unexpected emotions, from shock or anger to disbelief, guilt, and profound sadness. The pain of grief can also disrupt your physical...
Grieving is a highly individual experience; there’s no right or wrong way to grieve. How you grieve depends on many factors, including your personality and coping style, your life experience, your faith, and how significant the loss was to you. Inevitably, the grieving process takes time. Healing happens gradually; it can’t be forced or hurried—and...
In 1969, psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross introduced what became known as the “five stages of grief.” These stages of grief were based on her studies of the feelings of patients facing terminal illness, but many people have generalized them to other types of negative life changes and losses, such as the death of a loved one or a break-up.
While loss affects people in different ways, many of us experience the following symptoms when we’re grieving. Just remember that almost anything that you experience in the early stages of grief is normal—including feeling like you’re going crazy, feeling like you’re in a bad dream, or questioning your religious or spiritual beliefs.
Since the experience of grieving following the loss of someone or something important to you tends to be unique to you, it’s difficult to label any type of grief as either “normal” or “abnormal”. However, there are types of grief that fall outside the expected symptoms and reactions described above. These include:
The pain of grief can often cause you to want to withdraw from others and retreat into your shell. But having the face-to-face support of other people is vital to healing from loss. Even if you’re not comfortable talking about your feelings under normal circumstances, it’s important to express them when you’re grieving. While sharing your loss can ...
When you’re grieving, it’s more important than ever to take care of yourself. The stress of a major loss can quickly deplete your energy and emotional reserves. Looking after your physical and emotional needs will help you get through this difficult time. Face your feelings. You can try to suppress your grief, but you can’t avoid it forever. In ord...
But if you understand the process that grief takes, give yourself time to grieve, understand your emotions, start to take care of yourself, and seek support, you can heal and life will get better again.
What is grief? In general, grief is the normal and natural reaction to the experience of profound loss. It is a powerful, unpredictable and sometimes uncontrollable state of being that ebbs and flows with no set duration. It can affect us physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually.
It is the grief you experience if you do not publicly acknowledge or mourn your loss or receive support from others. Grief may be disenfranchised if others do not recognize your relationship to the person who died, if the type of loss is not supported by others, or if there is stigma related to the loss.
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Grief can bring up powerful and unexpected feelings and thoughts, and you may feel overwhelmed at times. It is not unusual to feel angry – anger with the person who has died, anger at the loneliness you feel, or anger at God or the world. Feelings of guilt and regret are common too.
