The Five Stages Of The Grieving Process

When you lose someone close to you, as I have recently experienced, you will go through several different stages of the grieving process. Grief is defined by Merriam Webster as “deep sadness caused especially by someone’s death, a cause of deep sadness.” Not only will you experience emotional reactions but your body will also go through physical reactions as well. Grief is part of the healing process and people will deal with it in different ways.
At some point in all our lives we will experience the loss of someone close to us. If you have already lost that someone then you know the different emotions associated with grieving. To heal we must first experience the different stages of grief. For the last six months I’ve been going through hell dealing with the loss of my husband. I have endured an emotional roller coaster ride. Some of the emotions I have experienced are pain, sorrow, anger, denial, anxiety, disbelief, and guilt. At times I feel as if my heart will break into a million …show more content…
I have found comfort from being around family and friends. I look at it this way, we have emotions for a reason so why try to mask your feelings with drugs. Eventually you will have to deal with the situation and I think it will make grieving even harder because you will have to relive the experience all over again. For some elderly people who have spent many years together, often when one spouse passes away the other will follow due to they have grieved themselves to death. No two people are alike when it comes to the grieving process. People often say to me, “I know what you’re going through,” but no they don’t. They can’t possible know the love that I had for my husband and how heartbroken I am for our children. People find comfort in many different ways. People move, take up a hobby, take an extended vacation or they might do what I’m doing, remodeling my home and I have gone back to