Complicated Grief Support [article from Articleranks]

Complicated Grief Support

A number of people who face the loss of a close person gradually recover after dealing with bereavement. Their lives change afterwards and the pain is gradually reducing. Sometimes it happens that people are so stressed out with their grieving that they cannot even think about possible recovery. On the contrary, some people try to protect themselves from all kinds of depression, so they never mourn. Others drink alcohol and take drugs which cannot be combined with grief and loss process. Some people face with an unbearable emotional pain. One more category o° individuals simply try to withdraw.

These are a bright examples of complicated grief. If you have one or few of them, the best variant is to turn for help to your family, friends or even to a specialist. Complicated grief can become a part of your life after the following situations:

• A conflict with the departed before his or her death.
• A difficult period of your life that took place at exactly the same time as death of a loved one.
• The situation when you lose a loved one not for the first time. Sometimes we lose more than one close person at a time (car accident, terrorist attack, natural disaster, etc).
• In case you receive no or not enough support from your family members and friends during such a difficult period.
• Not receiving any help from anybody, subconscious desire to be alone.
• Memories about the previous deaths in the family and other negative episodes of life.

Dont be afraid to ask for help to make your grief real, while you run away from it. Don't try just to escape. To deny death means to deprive oneself from a proper grief and loss process. Ask for help to puzzle out your emotions. Refusal from emotions because of your feeling of grief doesn't let you grieve as you are supposed to. Don't be afraid to ask for help in searching a new way in life. To learn how to live being a completely new person is important. Learn more about how you loved one lived. Create a memory book so that others could learn more about the departed and his or her life.

It is always essential to get support and help of the family and friends in such things.

tags:dealing with bereavement,grief and loss process,grief support,grief advice,MEMORY BOOK