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Grieving with Grace: A journey to Acceptane and Healing
Grief is the anguish experienced after a significant loss, usually the death of a beloved person.
Grief often includes physiological distress, separation anxiety, confusion, yearning, obsessive dwelling on the past, and apprehension about the future. Intense grief can become life-threatening through disruption of the immune system, self-neglect, and suicidal thoughts.
Grief may also take the form of regret for something lost, remorse for something done, or sorrow for a mishap to oneself. Losing someone in the era of COVID-19 is a unique burden. Visits have been forbidden or strictly limited at hospitals and nursing homes, personal protective equipment blocks out faces, and the comfort of family embraces and loving funerals are circumscribed or gone. Meanwhile, the virus has killed more than 565,000 Americans and at least 2.6 million people worldwide. Each of these deaths leaves behind a constellation of loved ones. Specialists worry that some of these survivors may suffer from “dysfunctional grieving,” in which grief interferes with daily functioning or leads to conditions such as prolonged grief disorder. “The circumstances under which people are experiencing grief in COVID disadvantage us in our grieving in almost every conceivable respect,” said clinical psychologist Robert Neimeyer, PhD, the director of the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition. Even those who have not lost someone directly to COVID-19 may be grieving other types of losses, ranging from time with loved ones to meaningful employment to a sense of a just world. Learning After reading this article, CE candidates will be able Losing someone in the era of COVID-19 is a unique burden. Visits have been forbidden or strictly limited at hospitals and nursing homes, personal protective equipment blocks out faces, and the comfort of family embraces and loving funerals are circumscribed or gone.
Grief often includes physiological distress, separation anxiety, confusion, yearning, obsessive dwelling on the past, and apprehension about the future. Intense grief can become life-threatening through disruption of the immune system, self-neglect, and suicidal thoughts.
Grief may also take the form of regret for something lost, remorse for something done, or sorrow for a mishap to oneself. Losing someone in the era of COVID-19 is a unique burden. Visits have been forbidden or strictly limited at hospitals and nursing homes, personal protective equipment blocks out faces, and the comfort of family embraces and loving funerals are circumscribed or gone. Meanwhile, the virus has killed more than 565,000 Americans and at least 2.6 million people worldwide. Each of these deaths leaves behind a constellation of loved ones. Specialists worry that some of these survivors may suffer from “dysfunctional grieving,” in which grief interferes with daily functioning or leads to conditions such as prolonged grief disorder. “The circumstances under which people are experiencing grief in COVID disadvantage us in our grieving in almost every conceivable respect,” said clinical psychologist Robert Neimeyer, PhD, the director of the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition. Even those who have not lost someone directly to COVID-19 may be grieving other types of losses, ranging from time with loved ones to meaningful employment to a sense of a just world. Learning After reading this article, CE candidates will be able Losing someone in the era of COVID-19 is a unique burden. Visits have been forbidden or strictly limited at hospitals and nursing homes, personal protective equipment blocks out faces, and the comfort of family embraces and loving funerals are circumscribed or gone.
189 pages, Paperback
Published June 10, 2023
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