The most crucial and difficult event to accept in people’s lives is undoubtedly death. Overcoming a wave of painful feelings and thoughts that moves us requires adaptation, and adaptation takes time.
Grief is an adaptation response that is important and necessary at the time of death, usually there are some stages during the duel: a first in which emotion and emotional lethargy make us face the new situation, violently, or as the case may be, with excessive calm, this is because part of our inner being refuses to accept reality , after this first phase we enter a state of turmoil and anxiety and, on many occasions, we have feelings of guilt related to events that have occurred in life, but which have not been resolved between the two parties.
- After four to six weeks of loss.
- In many situations.
- Depression will gradually go away and.
- Little by little.
- The pain will begin to subside.
- Until the usual life is recovered.
- Sharing the moment and reducing the weight of loss is the best help we can get.
Family and friends are crucial to occupy delicate moments during the assimilation period, resources such as painting, writing or photography are means of expression that release our emotions and lighten the weight of tragedy thanks to the company of animals, As well as self-help Groups in social networks, on the Internet, we can live moments in which our feelings and thoughts are less painful and easier to explain and share.
Professional/psychological help is another alternative to fully achieve the emotional balance we lack right now. Grief and process can range from about six months to two years, depending on each person. One way or another, we will all inevitably face death. . It is a devastating fact, which can help us understand that every day of our lives is an opportunity, to feel and live fully, when our end does not come.