Grief/loss
Grief designates a normal psychological process through which a person who has lost something or someone important, understands, accepts and moves forward. Bereavement is a term used to name the process of recovering from someone’s death and grief is the reaction to this recovery. Normal grief involves a wide range of feelings and common behaviors and it is associated with multiple feelings like anger, regret, relief, sadness and guilt. A person is going through four phases during grief and mourning:
• Phase 1: accept the reality of loss. At first, the person will like nothing happened
• Phase 2: going through the pain of mourning. Not everyone experiences the same pain intensity or feels the same way. Denying this phase blocks the emotions and thoughts of loss by boosting positive emotions using by alcohol or drugs.
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There are three types of adjustment. External adjustment happens when the individual faces a setting like an empty house, raise children alone, and manage finances alone. Personal adjustment refers to the effects of loss on self-esteem, self-efficiency. Spiritual adjustment refers to how the individual will view the world after the loss.
• Step 4: emotional reframing and the continuation of life. The individual finds ways to remember the loved one and at the same time to continue with his life.
These phases differ in intensity and duration depending on each person and the particular loss (meant person, whether a death was not expected). Normality grief involves passing through each stage. When blockages occur at any of these stages, it passes to complicated grief. Complicated grief involves the reactions of chronic mourning like a longer period of time (more than a year), late reactions to bereavement after a long time since death, overreacting to mourning that can lead to clinical depression.
Grieving Thoughts and
Grief designates a normal psychological process through which a person who has lost something or someone important, understands, accepts and moves forward. Bereavement is a term used to name the process of recovering from someone’s death and grief is the reaction to this recovery. Normal grief involves a wide range of feelings and common behaviors and it is associated with multiple feelings like anger, regret, relief, sadness and guilt. A person is going through four phases during grief and mourning:
• Phase 1: accept the reality of loss. At first, the person will like nothing happened
• Phase 2: going through the pain of mourning. Not everyone experiences the same pain intensity or feels the same way. Denying this phase blocks the emotions and thoughts of loss by boosting positive emotions using by alcohol or drugs.
• …show more content…
There are three types of adjustment. External adjustment happens when the individual faces a setting like an empty house, raise children alone, and manage finances alone. Personal adjustment refers to the effects of loss on self-esteem, self-efficiency. Spiritual adjustment refers to how the individual will view the world after the loss.
• Step 4: emotional reframing and the continuation of life. The individual finds ways to remember the loved one and at the same time to continue with his life.
These phases differ in intensity and duration depending on each person and the particular loss (meant person, whether a death was not expected). Normality grief involves passing through each stage. When blockages occur at any of these stages, it passes to complicated grief. Complicated grief involves the reactions of chronic mourning like a longer period of time (more than a year), late reactions to bereavement after a long time since death, overreacting to mourning that can lead to clinical depression.
Grieving Thoughts and