Grieving is hard. Grieving during a pandemic is excruciating
. Her research centers on thanatology — the study of death, dying, and bereavement — and she also has a private practice where she sees people grieving a traumatic loss. “We must mourn our lost loved ones in different ways than we may have traditionally done, and that can be a stepping stone to a time when we can gather and perform the needed ritual together.”being surrounded by constant reminders of death can be triggering.
Everyone responds to grief in their own way, but lately for me, this has involved constantly reliving my mother’s final days and the sadness of her death, while simultaneously feeling guilty that I was able to spend time with her before she passed, and go through the traditional motions of mourning with a wake, funeral, and physical gatherings of family and friends.
— one of the world’s foremost experts in grief and loss — says that psychologically, we would rather feel guilty than helpless. “We are uncomfortable in a world where we’re helpless,” he tells. “We need to find control. So our [way of taking] control is ‘Well, I’m just going to be guilty about it — that’s what I’m doing.”article, where he helped people put a name to what they’re feeling right now — even if they didn’t recently experience a death.
where he hosts live sessions every day at 1 p.m. PST. Since creating this group at the start of the pandemic, it has grown to more than 5,300 members.
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