MEANING OF GRIEF
Grief is extreme sadness. This interferes with your daily activities. Grief often arises with loss. Loss can financial that is due to a huge financial crisis, loss of a relation or a loved one due to separation or death. Grief can fill you up with other negative emotions like anger, depression, frustration, guilt and such others. Elizabeth Ross a famous Swiss psychiatrist had given the five stages of grief, these are:
- Denial
- Anger
- Bargaining
- Depression
- Acceptance
Most people move through these stages on their own and reach the acceptance stage thereafter leading on a normal life.
When to take counseling in Grief recovery?
If the grieving person does not recover back to normalcy even after a year of the event that has caused grief then it can be really harmful. This can lead to chronic depression, insomnia, suicidal thought process. Impact of this can be felt even on physical health like getting panic attacks, increased blood pressure, cardiac problems etc. It is important that you should consult a counsellor if you find difficulty in recovering from grief. This counselling can be taken as early as possible so that these symptoms do not increase and you do not face further problems.
How does Grief Recovery therapy help?
With Grief recovery counselling you can
- Reduce anxiety, guilt and depression
- you can channelize your negative emotions of grief into something positive
- Counselling can help you set up your normal self care routine
- A person can gain back lost confidence in life. This can restore your happiness and help you use your life to do something positive
- It can encourage you to feel more in control of your emotions and help you understand how to recover from emotional triggers that can occur in the future
Who can take grief counselling
Any person who has the above issues can take grief counselling. The person can be of any age, gender or profession. At times even people who do counselling may seek grief counselling in case they had a traumatic event in their life. Hence one should understand that grief is a natural process of our life and sometimes it becomes necessary to seek support to gain back a normalcy in our life
Type of Grief recovery therapies
At Mind Wellness Everyday you will get a customized grief recovery therapy. This can be anyone of the following or a combination of these listed therapies. Also if in your case a different customized therapy is required we may design the same and suggest it to you.
- Cognitive Behavioral therapy
- Talk Therapy
- Pet Therapy
- Mindfulness
- Meditation
- Art Therapy
With these therapies you can have a good diversion of your mind and start feeling more positive about your life. Grief Recovery Therapies are given in a customized manner as per your requirement and both online and offline.