face grief’s absence.
If relatives and friends are pressing you to speak to someone or are worried about your mourning process, it may be worth seeking professional help.
Delayed Grief
As the weight of a loss becomes palpable, delayed sorrow may emerge from the shadows. “This may be a normal mourning cycle for some,” adds Koger. Sometimes, it’s hard to realize that a person, relationship, pet, location, or object is gone.
How To Manage
Delayed sorrow may process naturally without help. If you feel bottled up or “stuck” in this stage, Koger advises making tiny efforts to accept loss, such as visiting a spot you used to frequent with that person.
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Disenfranchised Grief
Loss is hard enough without social shame, but alienated grieving may worsen it. “This is a grieving category I personally don’t believe is emphasized enough,” Koger says. It’s when society or culture doesn’t accept your loss. Lack of understanding or education on suicide, drug abuse, STDs, quitting a religious faith, and other issues may cause this.
How To Manage
You can discover support networks that understand your loss and respect your experience, even if you cannot alter your culture or civilization that causes disenfranchised anguish.
Start by talking to a mental health professional. A therapist may help you find grief-validating support. Education and understanding of taboo issues may also assist with this grieving.
Collective Grief
Sometimes, loss affects a country, people, culture, or the planet. This community-level sadness is communal grief. It’s frequent after war, mass killings, hate crimes, and human rights atrocities.
How To Manage
Coming together in groups may be a wonderful approach to working through collective mourning with others experiencing the experience. Vigils, memorials, peaceful protests, marches, and ceremonies allow you to express grief.
Activism may help you cope with communal sorrow after hate crimes or human rights abuses by