How Can You Support Someone Who Is In Grief And Loss
Each one of us has an individual style of coping grief and loss. A person who is grieving often feels so isolated or lonely in their grief. It may decrease their self esteem and after that they lose social activities and support from others. If they will do this kind of thing, their shock will never fade away.
Have you ever encountered a person who never goes out of their shell since they experienced grief and loss? Experiences with their grief and loss have influenced them not to mingle with other people. They try to hide themselves now and then. If they're your family members or close to you, will you let them live like that? What will you do to support them while feeling grief and loss? Losing someone you love or the death of one's family member is so painful that nobody can describe it.
This feeling is beyond the power of description that someone is reaching out for some support from their friends and families. When you're in this state and you receive support and sympathy from people who are close to you, it's very helpful for your fast recovery. When someone is confiding to you about their loss and grief, give them a chance to talk.
Allow them to burst the heartaches that they keep inside their heart and mind. Don't ever dare to interrupt them and you must be a good listener. Sometimes when they are expressing their grief, you as a listener are a little bit confused because their emotion in characterized by frequent abrupt or unpredictable changes.
So you've got to show to them that you're in full attention to what they're grieving. It is very meaningful and very curative to them. Never ever compare their feelings to other people who have the same experiences as them. Most especially the pain that they feel when they lose their love one.
They have their own pain and unique loss that is comparable to other people. After hearing all the discomfort, let them know that you sympathize to what they feel and the first thing you have to say is