Finding a new way to mourn
3 years, 7 months ago

Finding a new way to mourn

Live Mint  

There were whispers that Raju Mondal had lost his mind the night his wife died. “I just want her to know how sorry I am I couldn’t do more.” With a resurgent covid-19 upending our understanding of how to mourn and handle death, people are finding individualised ways to grieve. “A lot of them are distraught because they feel the deceased aren’t at peace because of the absence of traditional rituals,” he says. “It’s a lot harder for them to make sense of the death,” says Dr Banerjee. “People aren’t just grieving over a person’s lost life but also one’s lost existence as they know it,” says Dr Banerjee, citing his own feeling of guilt coming home from the front-lines as an example of grief.

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Know Someone Who Is Grieving? Here's The 1 Thing You Should Never Do, According To A Grief Expert.
2 months ago

Know Someone Who Is Grieving? Here's The 1 Thing You Should Never Do, According To A Grief Expert.

Huff Post  

pocketlight via Getty Images Grief is tricky. Those are just a few of the questions that we — Noah Michelson and Lindsay Holmes, the hosts of this episode of HuffPost’s “Am I Doing It Wrong?” podcast ― asked M. Katherine Shear, M.D., the Marion E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and the founding director of the Center for …

Know Someone Who Is Grieving? Here's The 1 Thing You Should Never Do, According To A Grief Expert.
2 months ago

Know Someone Who Is Grieving? Here's The 1 Thing You Should Never Do, According To A Grief Expert.

Huff Post  

pocketlight via Getty Images Grief is tricky. Those are just a few of the questions that we — Noah Michelson and Lindsay Holmes, the hosts of this episode of HuffPost’s “Am I Doing It Wrong?” podcast ― asked M. Katherine Shear, M.D., the Marion E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and the founding director of the Center for …

Grief is brutal, but there is value in it, experts say. So why do we try to "cure" it?
6 months, 1 week ago

Grief is brutal, but there is value in it, experts say. So why do we try to "cure" it?

Salon  

Cody Delistraty wanted to get good at grief. Though the loss of his mother and its aftermath “showed me how brutal pain is,” as Delistraty tells me during a recent video chat, it also showed him why grief can be something to “keep with us and to work through, as hard as it is.” Ultimately, it’s not something to be …

We talked to dozens of people about their experience of grief. Here’s what we learned
10 months ago

We talked to dozens of people about their experience of grief. Here’s what we learned

ABC  

Have you ever felt a sudden pang of sadness? Grief is often imagined as a time-bound period in which one processes the pain of loss — that is, adjusts to absence and works toward "moving on". "Prolonged grief disorder" is the name given to "persistent difficulties associated with bereavement that exceeded expected social, cultural, or religious expectations". As bereaved daughter …

What does healing look like, in unruly and unpredictable grief?
1 year, 1 month ago

What does healing look like, in unruly and unpredictable grief?

Hindustan Times  

So much has changed when it comes to how we grieve. “The one thing that stands out about Millennials and Gen Z is that they have learned to walk with grief, using whatever means they have,” says life coach Chetna Chakravarthy. “I just find it hard to say my feeling to people and so social media was easier because I …

Why you should grieve the ‘smaller’ pandemic losses
2 years, 4 months ago

Why you should grieve the ‘smaller’ pandemic losses

LA Times  

By Laura Newberry Today we’re talking about the pandemic and acknowledging — really acknowledging — loss. I wanted to really understand how these intangible losses affect us, so I sought out teachers and practitioners who’ve made the study of loss their life’s work. “It’s why so many more people right now are anxious, depressed, stressed out,” said Sherry Cormier, a …

How To Process The Death Of Someone Who Negatively Affected Your Life
2 years, 5 months ago

How To Process The Death Of Someone Who Negatively Affected Your Life

Huff Post  

Ol'ga Efimova / EyeEm via Getty Images Therapists say it's OK to have minimal or absent grief, or even to feel relief when you lose someone who hurt you. I’ve tried to convince others to come and just be present, and they refused.” - Jennifer Kaluzny, a rabbi at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan “She felt ashamed to feel …

How your brain copes with grief, and why it takes time to heal
3 years ago

How your brain copes with grief, and why it takes time to heal

NPR  

How your brain copes with grief, and why it takes time to heal Enlarge this image toggle caption Adam Lister/Getty Images Adam Lister/Getty Images Holidays are never quite the same after someone we love dies. "What we see in science is, if you have a grief experience and you have support so that you have a little bit of time …

How to grieve and heal during the pandemic
3 years, 7 months ago

How to grieve and heal during the pandemic

Live Mint  

All of April and May, most of the sessions I did with clients were around grief. In sessions, clients have shared similar struggles and asked me what they can really say to help their friends or family in a way that’s sensitive—they also ask what they should avoid saying. Since we are still in lockdown, I find it useful to …

How Working In A Covid Ward Has Changed My Outlook Towards Life, A Doctor Writes
3 years, 7 months ago

How Working In A Covid Ward Has Changed My Outlook Towards Life, A Doctor Writes

News 18  

This pandemic has been a weird yet important learning period of my life. Over the months, I realised how working in a Covid ward has changed my outlook towards life. Families are being torn apart and lives of many young kids are being devastated due to the loss of a family member. Losing patients under my care now feels like …

Why you should address vicarious grief
3 years, 7 months ago

Why you should address vicarious grief

Live Mint  

A 21-year-old client tells me: “2021 began with so much hope and now it feels like we are in the midst of a calamity. I have never lost a loved one in my life to death, yet all of last month it felt like grief.” For 17 years I have worked around grief, trauma and relationships but this time it …

6 ways to help you cope after the death of a long-term partner
3 years, 9 months ago

6 ways to help you cope after the death of a long-term partner

The Independent  

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‘The anniversary effect’: Why you might be experiencing an extra toll of grief
3 years, 9 months ago

‘The anniversary effect’: Why you might be experiencing an extra toll of grief

CNN  

CNN — It’s been one year since Covid-19 was declared a pandemic. You might be experiencing what psychologists call “the anniversary effect.” As therapist and counselor Susan Harrington explains, our bodies and brains store painful memories that can be triggered by certain dates or seasons, such as the death date of a loved one, the annual reminder of a serious …

How To Process Grief Caused By COVID-19 (Even If You Didn't Lose Someone)
3 years, 10 months ago

How To Process Grief Caused By COVID-19 (Even If You Didn't Lose Someone)

Huff Post  

Alexandra Bowman for HuffPost Bent Not Broken is a look back on the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has disrupted our mental health, plus advice on how to manage our well-being moving forward. “Grief is a reaction to loss and not all loss is about death,” said Marianne Trent, a clinical psychologist and author of “The …

Opinion: Human beings can’t grieve alone. The cost of trying will be staggering
3 years, 10 months ago

Opinion: Human beings can’t grieve alone. The cost of trying will be staggering

CNN  

Editor’s Note: David M. Perry is a journalist and historian. That’s because the experience of pretty much every person touched by any single death for any cause – in the US that’s over 3 million last year – has also been shaped by Covid. It’s nearly impossible for me to get my mind around the numbers of people dying, those …

UK’s ‘tsunami’ of grief as coronavirus deaths pass 100,000
3 years, 11 months ago

UK’s ‘tsunami’ of grief as coronavirus deaths pass 100,000

Associated Press  

LONDON — For nine months, Gordon Bonner has been in the “hinterlands of despair and desolation” after losing his wife of 63 years to the coronavirus pandemic that has now taken the lives of more than 100,000 people in the United Kingdom. “There’s going to be a tsunami of grief and mental health issues this year, next year, ongoing, due …

Coping mechanisms: The pandemic guide to grieving
4 years ago

Coping mechanisms: The pandemic guide to grieving

Hindustan Times  

A person’s response to life in a pandemic can mirror the five stages of grief, with varying results, depending on how they deal with each emotion as it unfurls. Anger and anxiety have sort of overlapped with the other emotions, because the sources of anxiety are so varied, changeable and, in many ways, seem here to stay at least for …

How to Deal with the Grief of Losing a Loved One
4 years ago

How to Deal with the Grief of Losing a Loved One

News 18  

Losing a loved one, whether they’re family or not, is never easy. Grief is an inevitable part of life that follows the loss of a loved one and grieving is a healing process that is unique to every individual. It’s perhaps even more important now to understand how grief affects your health and how to engage in it in a …

6 Useful Tips For Anyone Grieving Their Pre-Pandemic Life
4 years, 1 month ago

6 Useful Tips For Anyone Grieving Their Pre-Pandemic Life

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING It's been one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. “Chronic grief is being experienced in many ways: through feelings of hopelessness; a sense of disbelief; avoidance of any situation that may remind someone of the loss; or loss of meaning and value in a belief system,” said John Sovec, a grief counselor in …

How to find meaning when the Covid pandemic has created death all around us
4 years, 1 month ago

How to find meaning when the Covid pandemic has created death all around us

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Kerry Egan is a former hospice chaplain and author of several books, including “On Living” and “Fumbling.” The views expressed in this commentary are her own. In hospice, this process is called “meaning making.” As a hospice chaplain for many years, it was my job to facilitate patients’ and families’ meaning-making work. So while we are already starting …

No time to say goodbye
4 years, 2 months ago

No time to say goodbye

Live Mint  

“My guilt is eating me,” Shaam Sareen says, holding back tears. Sometimes, a nurse or a doctor is kind enough to connect a patient with their loved one via a video or an audio call so that they can say goodbye, but in times of a medical emergency, like dyspnea, or the acute shortness of breath known as “air hunger” …

Everyone deserves to have open conversations about death, even during a pandemic
4 years, 7 months ago

Everyone deserves to have open conversations about death, even during a pandemic

The Independent  

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10 Ways You Can Support Someone Grieving During The Coronavirus Crisis
4 years, 8 months ago

10 Ways You Can Support Someone Grieving During The Coronavirus Crisis

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING It's been one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Here are some ways you can be there for those who may need you right now: Don’t minimize what someone is going through Kessler said it’s human nature to say things like: “Oh, she can have another wedding,” or, “You can have a graduation …

Coronavirus has changed death and funerals — but new rituals can help us grieve
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus has changed death and funerals — but new rituals can help us grieve

ABC  

On a Sunday morning in late March, I got the call I'd been dreading. Rituals help us process death Clinical psychologist and University of Wollongong lecturer, Dr Emanuela Brusadelli, said the upheaval of social isolation created a surreal situation that was an additional source of distress when we lose someone we love. "One can look at very vastly different cultural …

How To Grieve Loved Ones When Funerals Aren't An Option
4 years, 9 months ago

How To Grieve Loved Ones When Funerals Aren't An Option

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING It's been one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. “The psyche has a hard time comprehending death as it is, and when people are not physically surrounded by others trying to make sense of the loss, it is even more difficult to understand, and eventually accept, that their loved one is no longer …

Grieving for my mother in the age of Covid-19 (opinion)
4 years, 9 months ago

Grieving for my mother in the age of Covid-19 (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: David Gelles is CNN’s executive producer of political and special events programming. There were just nine of us in the house after the funeral that day – my mother’s sister, her husband, and their daughter joined my father, my older brother, my wife and I, and our two kids. I had gone to bed Friday night worried that …

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