lost...All of a sudden she passed away and I couldn't do anything more for her. The ambitious,

hopes, and inspirations I had before seemed no longer important to me...How am I going to live?

What am I going to hang on to? Is it necessary to grieve? Do sorrow and mental anguish serve

some useful function? What is the purpose of grief work?

Grief is the reaction to the loss of a person or thing to which we have become attached. It

is a natural and normal reaction that has a natural form and sequence. It is, at times, intensely

painful and frightening, and it may therefore be avoided, repressed, or distorted out if its natural

form. Grief is experienced in each of three major ways--psychologically (through your feelings,

thoughts, and attitudes), socially (through your behavior with others), and physically (through your

Psychiatric research indicates that attempts to deny or avoid grief are potentially harmful.

It is important for people who suffer a loss who are in a position to help to encourage the bereaved

to express their grief. This process of realization and the acceptance

alike, and no two worlds the same, each person goes through it in his/her own way. For some the

child leave home, achieving a long-worked for goal, or terminating therapy are experiences that

people who care, and struggling to make sense of them. As you do this, you will gradually be able

to work and accustomed roles in the world. Grief may be complicated in a variety of ways, and

loss and separation from those you love. "They express three things:

them of the loss and by filling their lives with frenzied activities to distract their thoughts. When

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