Faces of grief: What can they do?

Today is the day when some cemeteries open early, flower shops show their best arrangements, and family members welcome November 2 with nostalgia.

Dozens of people gather at cemeteries to visit this being who is no longer among them. Them clean their graves and they leave you new flower arrangements. Many, even though years have passed since that loved one left, continue to experience their grief.

What is sadness?

It’s that powerful, sometimes overwhelming emotion that people feel, regardless of whether they are grief is for loss loved ones or a terminal diagnosis they or a loved one has received, Mayo Clinic psychology experts explain.

It is a process that cannot be controlled, but one should prepare for the stages of this grief.

Experts point out that understanding why they are suffering can help, as can talking to other people and trying to resolve issues that may be causing a lot of emotional pain, for example, guilt over the death of a loved one.

They repeat that grief can last for months or years. He pain It also fades with time as you adjust to life without a loved one, to the news of a terminal diagnosis, or to the knowledge that someone you love might die.

Phases

Experts remind that grief has several stages. Which are?’

The pain of loss can be experienced not only through death, but every time in our life we ​​have the experience of a definite interruption of something, a loss, a distance that cannot be crossed.

– Denial: Disbelief is the first reaction to a blow in life.

– Anger: It is a weapon for survival.

– Negotiation: We look for ways to make the inevitable impossible.

– Depression: A person feels sadness, uncertainty facing the future, emptiness and deep pain

– Acceptance: This is the last step of grieving. It’s never easy to accept that what’s lost is lost and there’s no getting back.

These are the stages that experts for Integra Center Panama, Headquarters of La Chorrera.