“Grief is like the ocean; it comes in waves, ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it's overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim,”-Vicki Harrison. The waves mentioned in the quote is a use of symbolism to provide a visual of what really gets individuals through tough times. Over the years, people have noticed that there are generally two ways to cope that cover a wide range of scenarios, known as ¨good grief¨ and ¨bad grief¨. When it comes to grief, although it is extremely painful anyway, there are actually good and bad versions of grief and the ways a person gets through it, better known as healthy of unhealthy. It is extremely important that when a person is grieving that they are following the proper steps to
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Some people deal with their grief and pain by inflicting it on others. Becoming an abuser masks the pain of those in grief, so does being a victim of that abuse, they both share similarities that makes the real pain feel numb(GoodTherapy.org). Eating problems develop when individuals going through hardship, these problems hit people in two different ways. One way eating problems get the best of people is that either they are obsessed with food for the time being and eating excessively helps ease their grief. They bury themselves in food and beverages and all thought of that there running from seems to vanish for a moment. The other way is that the grief makes an individual lose their appetite and they under-eat or don't eat at all, and with that other concerning health problems can emerge when someone isn't getting enough nutrients and other things they need daily. Cases have been discovered where people often become controlling after being exposed to traumatic moments of grief. When a situation presents itself that is beyond the control of anyone, the person who suffers from that incident feels powerless, and one of the things that they do to avoid processing their grief correctly is to become controlling. Being in control provides a false feeling of
Some people deal with their grief and pain by inflicting it on others. Becoming an abuser masks the pain of those in grief, so does being a victim of that abuse, they both share similarities that makes the real pain feel numb(GoodTherapy.org). Eating problems develop when individuals going through hardship, these problems hit people in two different ways. One way eating problems get the best of people is that either they are obsessed with food for the time being and eating excessively helps ease their grief. They bury themselves in food and beverages and all thought of that there running from seems to vanish for a moment. The other way is that the grief makes an individual lose their appetite and they under-eat or don't eat at all, and with that other concerning health problems can emerge when someone isn't getting enough nutrients and other things they need daily. Cases have been discovered where people often become controlling after being exposed to traumatic moments of grief. When a situation presents itself that is beyond the control of anyone, the person who suffers from that incident feels powerless, and one of the things that they do to avoid processing their grief correctly is to become controlling. Being in control provides a false feeling of