What is bereavement and grief?
Losing a person or something important may cause feelings of bereavement and grief. Bereavement is a feeling of being deprived or suffering due to a loss or death of a loved one. Grief is a normal, healthy response to a loss. A person’s grief is his experience and reaction after the loss or death. When someone dies, the people who were left behind may feel different for a while. You may cry a lot, feel angry, guilty, worthless, hopeless, helpless, or confused. Healing from a loss or death needs accepting, recovering from, and learning the meaning of the sad experience. What are the stages of grief? As you experience loss and death of a loved one, you may have different feelings at different times. You may go through the following stages when you are dealing with grief: • Shock, numbness, and denial: Even if death of a loved one was expected, it may still come as a surprise or shock. Shock may leave you feeling numb emotionally which may lasts for hours to days. The shock and numbness m
