Getting Help with Grief and Loss
Everyone experiences grief and loss at some point in life when they lose someone or something affectionate to them. The most significant and most immense trauma that many of us experience in life is the death of loved ones. However, there are many other reasons for grief and loss, such as losing a job, illness, end of a relationship or friendship, menopause, life-threatening event, and shifting to another country.
Everyone reacts differently when they experience grief and loss in their lives. During the period of grief, you will feel loneliness and that no one can understand your pain. You may prefer solitude, but the help of friends, family, and relatives will help you to come over the depth of pain. If you find it hard to cope with the loss, you should take a supportive way to deal with grief. Counselling will help you safely and effectively to pass over the time of grief and loss.
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Understanding Grief and Loss
Grief is a reaction when someone loses an important thing in life. Grief and loss are feelings that start from deep sadness to anger, and effect varies from person to person. Sometimes loss and grief also depend on the person's beliefs, background, and relationship.
Sometimes loss or grief leads to guilt and regret. The reaction may also vary towards grief, such as a person may feel grieving on a relationship while another person may mourn the death of a loved one. People suffering from grief and loss can find themselves bouncing between different thoughts. Behaviors towards grief also change, such as some people find it easy to share it with someone and feel comfort while some people prefer loneliness in grief and don't like to engage with anyone.
Due to different feelings and behaviors people express towards grief, the grief is distributed into two types; Instrumental grieving (focuses on problem-solving tasks and tries to minimize or control emotional expression) and Intuitive grieving (focuses on emotional experience and involves sharing emotions and lost relationships).
Common Responses To Grief
Grief varies with the personality and beliefs of a person and has many other factors on which a person depends to respond to grief. However, some of the most common responses to grief are following
- Anxiety, Depression
- Anger
- Change in appetite
- Guilt
- Hopelessness, helplessness, loneliness
- Disrupted sleep patterns and sometimes insomnia
- Loss of concentration towards work
- Loss of interest in daily life
- Numbness, sadness, shock, remorse
- Constant tearing
These common responses towards grief based on your thoughts, feeling, and behaviour can affect our daily life, and we can lose the capability to work as we do before grief. Grief counselling is very important if you are feeling any of the above symptoms after grief. Counselling will help you explore your thoughts, and you will learn how to control yourself by focusing and clarifying what you need to feel supported in the moment of grief. The therapist is always here to help you cope with anxiety, stress, and depression due to grief.
The Process of Recovering from Grief
People used to recover from grief at different times according to the power of grief and the importance of loss in their lives. Everyone has their own way of dealing with grief. Some people recover from grief within six months or shorter than it, while they also feel sadness whenever they recall the event. In contrast, some people recover from grief after a long time.
People may feel better within a year, but some people grieve continuously without finding any sort of support or relief. Grief can lead to many types of mental health problems, such as depression. The level of dependency on loss also affects a person's grief and causes complications.
The process of grieving involves many complications about emotions and thoughts. Sometimes people don't like to enjoy any gatherings, and sometimes joy and humor are not absent in this period. The most important aspects of getting recovery from grief and loss are to get social support, recreation, and self-care.
The recovery process of grieving can be very difficult sometimes, especially in the death of a loved one and the loss of an intense relationship. It is tough to live life without a loved one, and adjusting to a new life can be complicated. Adapting to a new life will be easy if a person starts keeping himself busy in daily life activities and rethink some future plans.
How Can Counselling Help You With Your Grief and Loss
Grief can be a very tough and complicated experience of life. There is no time period to get recovery from grief and loss. People may recover from deep sadness within six months, but they will always feel grief whenever they recall and remember it. However, you can get help from psychologists and therapists through counselling, which will help you to manage your grief so that you can learn how to start life again without any harsh feelings.
Grief counselling is very important if you are feeling any of the above symptoms after grief. Counselling will help you explore your thoughts, and you will learn how to control yourself by focusing and clarifying what you need to feel supported in the moment of grief. The therapist is always here to help you cope with anxiety, stress, and depression due to grief.
The most common therapy used to cope with grief and loss issues is CBT. Cognitive-behavioural therapy addresses our way of thinking about how we look at the world and ourselves. Cognitive means how our negative thoughts contribute to depression and anxiety due to grief and loss, and behavioural means how we act in a situation that creates anxiety in a tense situation. Cognitive Behavioral therapy treats panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, many phobias and helps us move forward towards a new life. The therapist first analyzes your negative thoughts and teaches you how to deal with them and then replace them with real positive thoughts, and this way, you will feel easy to adapt to a new life.
Want to book an appointment at Evergreen Rehab and Wellness Clinic? Call us at 604-449-5859 to find the best solution. We will help you make positive changes in your life.