Supporting a Bereaved Adult
Everyone’s grief process is different.
Because we all have different relationships with different people, no two grief processes are the same. This is true for individuals and family members.
When will this end?
There is no set time limit for grief. Although we expect, after some time has passed, for the initial impact of a death to lessen, this does not mean we have completed our grief journey. There may still be times when we can feel sadness, confusion, emptiness, though less intensely and less frequently. There may also be periods when we feel again a longing to have the deceased alive and with us.
Why me?
No one wants a loved one to die and the experience of death can feel personal to us. Sometimes it can feel that we are being punished, or that we did something wrong and that is why the person we love has died. This is a natural response to death and a way of attempting to find meaning in death, as the understanding that we have no control over death can be a difficult truth to come to terms with.
What can I do to fix this?
There is no right or wrong way of responding to death.
Grieving is a natural response to death.
Grief is a learning process. After someone has died, we are learning how to live in a different world without the deceased and without an instruction manual on how to do this.
We are learning who we are now without the deceased.
We are also learning how to develop a new and different relationship with the deceased and with people who are still alive.
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