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Making Progress With Grief Counseling

By Jason Hughes


Losing a loved one can be extremely traumatic. You will go through many different emotions that range from guilt, anger, self blame and much sadness of course. This is not easy to deal with on your own. In fact, when you attempt to handle these emotions on your own, you may never find a way to cope. The pain will ease up over time, and it will even be difficult with grief counseling. However, with therapy, you will find that it can be easier to deal with.

It can affect you in different ways. Some people would be very close to their loved one. In the beginning, you will feel like giving up on life. However, as time goes by this will improve. The counselling helps you to set goals and to know what to do when you are feeling depressed or anxious. You will be relieved when you find out that there are stages of grief which is something that everyone goes through.

Working with other people in a group can be very helpful because you begin to see that there are others that are in the same boat. People don't always get the same out of individual therapy because they feel that the therapist has not been through what they have been through.

Many children feel that this was their fault at the time. Of course, as an adult you realize that this is not true. But as you grow up, you will have issues which will include a low self esteem. You may develop anxiety. Not having a parent in your life for guidance and love is obviously a problem. This is something that you need to deal with. Therapy can be intense during this time.

When you lose someone like this, you can go through a range of different feelings and emotions which will go up and down from one day to another. Sometimes you will feel like blaming God. Other days you will become angry and blame the person who has died. Then you will feel bad and blame yourself and become depressed, feeling a lot of sorrow in your life. This can continue for days. It is important to be able to express this in therapy. Besides group therapy, sometimes you will be able to focus on practical methods as well as something more creative.

There are people who don't lose a loved one, but it can relate to someone that they have not even met before. However, it can also be traumatic because they may have witnessed a murder. They would have been exposed to a robbery or a kidnapping. This is obviously traumatic. It needs to be taken care of.

There are practical things to take into consideration which are a lot more useful and healthy. Things like getting enough sleep, getting enough exercise, making sure that you socialize and sticking to a good eating plan are important aspects that you should think about. The therapist will reinforce this during the sessions, and this kind of check up is so important.

You begin to connect on this basis. People build relationships based on the way they feel with one another. They may find that friends and individual therapists don't understand what they are going through. This is the reason for a group.




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