What is Grief?

 

Grief is the horrible way we feel—which affects both our bodies and our minds—when we love someone, or something that was irreplaceable.

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Sometimes the loss is so big, the hole we feel in our hearts and in our lives is so huge, we have trouble eating or sleeping, or even thinking.

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People may grieve—have grief or, as we say, suffer with grief—for a long time after a loved one dies. If you feel that way, it’s very normal. It may help you to talk about how you feel. It may help to remember him in a special way. It may help to get busy sometimes doing something you used to enjoy doing.

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Over time, the grief isn’t so intense, it isn’t so strong. It will go down a notch or two and then, you’ll start to feel like your old self. You’ll still be sad when you think about him, but it won’t be a sadness so deep and so powerful you almost feel paralyzed, you almost feel like you can’t even move.

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It may not seem possible right now, but, with time, things are going to be OK.