Grief Support
Because grief can be so painful and seem overwhelming, it frightens us. Many people worry if they are grieving in the "right" way and wonder if feelings they have are normal.
Most people who suffer a LOSS,
EXPERIENCE one or more of the following:
- Feel tightness in the throat or heaviness in the chest.
- Have an empty feeling in their stomach and lose their appetite.
- Feel guilty at times; angry at others.
- Feel restless and look for activity, but find it difficult to concentrate.
- Feel as though the loss isn't real; that it didn't happen.
- Sense the loved one's presence, like finding themselves expecting the person to walk in the door at the usual time, hearing their voice, or seeing their face.
- Wandering aimlessly, forgetfulness, and don't finish things they've started to do around the house.
- Have difficulty sleeping and dream of their loved one frequently.
- Experience an intense preoccupation with the life of the deceased.
- Assume mannerisms or traits of their loved one.
- Feel guilty or angry over things that happened or didn't happen in the relationship with the deceased.
- Feel intensely angry at the loved one for leaving them.
- Feel as though they need to take care of other people who seem uncomfortable around them, by politely not talking about the loved one and the experience of their death.
- Need to tell, or retell, and remember things about the loved one and the experience of their death.
- Feel their mood changes over the slightest things.
- Cry at unexpected times.
These are all natural grief responses. |
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