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03-21-2008, 02:03 PM | #1 | |||
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I am not coping with a death of a loved one. I am coping with the
loss of a friend and lover. I keep fluctuating between feeling completely empty and in pain to being ok. Am I just weird?
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03-21-2008, 02:21 PM | #2 | ||
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it's still grief over a loss.
nope. you aren't weird..unless the rest of here are too.
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"Thanks for this!" says: | AfterMyNap (04-11-2008) |
03-21-2008, 05:01 PM | #3 | |||
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I would call that being normal...
Grief over loss can come through in many different ways... I know people who laugh...not because they are happy but because that's their "normal" reaction to grief. Me...I don't deal with loss... I never have... Not cold hearted---I just bottle it up so I don't have to deal with it. Abbie
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03-22-2008, 04:52 AM | #4 | |||
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Any kind of loss can cause us to grieve - doesn't necessarily have to be a loss through death.
You're not weird....you're just human with a compassionate heart.
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"Thanks for this!" says: | Kitt (03-31-2008) |
03-26-2008, 06:06 AM | #5 | |||
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No you're not weird...the feelings you describe are a perfectly normal part of the grief process and the road to healing...and it just shows you have a heart
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03-26-2008, 11:57 AM | #6 | |||
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Thank you all!! I have finally moved on to the animosity stage ...
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03-26-2008, 01:03 PM | #7 | |||
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I have heard this but I do not believe it is accredited to any one person,
but many people who like you and I ... who are going through grief the is no correct way or time to grieve...
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03-29-2008, 05:38 AM | #8 | |||
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So true.....everyone is different and grieves in their own way and in their own time.
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03-29-2008, 06:08 AM | #9 | |||
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Grief comes in many forms. It's a mixed bag.
I've been grieving these past couple of days over a loss from long long ago. Grief had a funny way of showing back up on my doorstep, even though I thought I had healed... {{{{HUGZ}}}}
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03-30-2008, 10:29 AM | #10 | ||
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My daughter's BF of a year recently broke up with her, and when she became severely depressed, I likened what she was dealing with to the recent (and sudden ) death of my close friend, Gina. In a real sense, it is a death. She has lost the person she thought he was. I think looking at it that way (and realizing that I could also understand that she could think of it that way) has helped her to begin to heal. She's no longer sad all the time, and we talk a lot more than we used to, so some good has definitely come out of it.
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