Grieving Friend Tips

The experience of a person losing a loved one is very difficult to accept and then cope with. “He gets all teary telling about the good times they had together, how her brother made the war seem almost fun.” pg. 67-68 (Tim O’Brien). Losing someone close to you is hard to accept because once their gone things don’t feel the same anymore and you just can’t stop thinking about them and the memories you guys shared together. It’s also very hard to cope with because you’re so used to having that person around and when their no longer there you feel so empty and that feeling is so horrible. Having to deal with the fact that someone who was so special to you is no longer there isn’t easy to accept.

Individuals enter nursing with a wide array of experiences in how they grieve the loss of someone or something. These experiences follow them into their career and express themselves in the way they grieve for the loss of a patient. Evidence shows that this has historically been inadequate and unhealthy. To prevent the negative impact that ineffective grieving has upon the individual the approach to the grieving process must change. In doing so nurses will become more emotionally and physically stable while going through these difficult times, ultimately helping the healthcare institution to thrive.

Other important ways to comfort a friend is by acknowledging the child’s death. Crying with the parent(s). Being available for additional childcare or rides to the funeral home. It is also important to respect each parent’s grief process.

Everyone deals with the loss of a loved one in their own way. While some may shut themselves away for days on end, others may throw themselves into activities that keep them busy enough to forget their pain. After serving Milford, Bridgeport and Stratford for over 100 years, there are four tips that the funeral planning professionals at Adzima Funeral Home recommend for starting the healing process:

For some bereavement is an unpredictable and traumatic experience, the loss of a loved one may evoke in the individual you support, behaviours and emotions you have not seen

control the situation, mourn the loss and move on with your life keeping them in your daily thoughts.

This is a time for sorrow and loss for our beloved friend has been for the

Mr. Gotcher is in compliance with his treatment plan this reporting period. He has not had any known incidents that have raised concern with regard to the safety of others in the community, self, and the staff at Ambitions.

The need for this study find the best practices in which will assist the complicated grief interventions that fail to reduce stress for future clients. In past studies, uncomplicated grief was being broadly defined as a bereavement response with acute distress in the first 6 to 12 months which was not social, physical, occupational functioning. Today, the individuals who are experiencing uncomplicated grief are seeking services to receive effective interventions. The knowledge of this topic will be used for adults experiencing uncomplicated grief seeking recommendations for future interventions conducted in this study (MacKinnon, et al., 2016).

This course has taught me that it is difficult to say goodbye to the ones we love. The struggle to separate from the deceased occurs because we have a strong attachment with them. The grief response and expression for every individual is unique (Winokuer & Harris, 2012, p. 26). Thus, I cannot expect my clients to grieve in a similar manner. It is also important for a counsellor to identify what stage in the grief process the client is in. Although, there are many models of grief stages, they all follow similar midpoints. These midpoints are accepting the loss, dealing with the emotions surrounding the loss, creating a reason for the loss, finding a way to continue to live without the loved one, and creating an everlasting bond with the deceased.

The bereaved person will always be encouraged within a supportive, caring and trusting atmosphere, to be themselves, to be able to express themselves and to talk about what they want to talk about and feel they need to talk about, in that they are to be listened to carefully and with compassion, that they are never going to be judged, and that there is patience, understanding and encouragement that is healthy and positive for them.

The bereaved client will need to know that it is ok and normal to feel this way. They need to

According to Foundation for a Mindful Society (2015), we can come to appreciate the necessity of sadness, how it grounds us and keeps us from becoming superficially cheerful and glossing over real pain. I believe it is a great idea to let a person grieve, and be there when they are ready to talk and acknowledge the pain.

So the most important factor of dealing with someone who lost someone is to be sensitive. You have to understand what they are going through and realize that only time can heal their broken heart. The healing process is very important when you lose a loved one because there is no set date and time that you will be ready to be okay. Different people have different ways of how they take this and the process of this , some people may need to take a vacation and other may just want to be alone for a few days. For me, talking about the happy memories helped me get over the pain. It’s okay if someone does not want to talk about it for a few days. That does not mean that they are hiding anything or not feeling remorse, it just means that they might handle it differently and they do not want everyone seeing them show their emotions

The minute the individual found out about their friend’s death, they started to crash and burn, tearing themselves apart, blaming themselves, saying that it’s their fault that they couldn’t save you since they didn’t know. Their mental and physical state started to deplete and they’ve become accustomed to the numbness that has spread throughout their body. They start to eat unhealthily and just stop working out all together. Minor health problems start to invade their system, they get sick more easily than before and just wait until it surpases. It gets to the point where they’ve been dealing with so much numbing pain that they, themselves, start to contemplate the same thoughts their friend was thinking years back. They have the mindset that, they’ll be reunited with their best friend if they were to meet the same fate. Eventually, they will, but they’re thinking about meeting that fate sooner rather than later. But they don’t want to really do this, they want to get better, but the rut they’ve created is so coarse and rugged that it’ll be difficult to fix those problems.