Recalling memories may be painful, but for many patients they are the only relationship they have left with their lost loved ones.
I feel like with Pepper, I've tried so hard to repress how painful it was that I am forgetting certain memories of her.
‘Do you avoid reminders that the person who died is really gone?’
With my pet Pepper that passed away, I don't like to look at pictures of her. I got a bit better with it over the past year because this year marks her 2nd anniversary of her gone. I still have unresolved feelings especially because of the nature of her death and when I look at pictures, it reminds me of all the things I wish I would've done better even though me and my family did the best we could with what we knew. As I get older, it really just keeps rubbing it in your face that hindsight is 20/20.
I had given up.
The feeling of hopelessness makes sense. I feel like I would possibly be in that same position because of the fact that there wasn't anything out there to help with this problem. But luckily, the rhetor didn't give up and I sometimes it takes you not looking for something anymore to find it. Or hopefully that you were born at the right time for science and innovation to catch up.
The ‘social hormone’ oxytocin is naturally released during breastfeeding and sexual intercourse, binding to receptors in the brain.
Just a really interesting hormone to study.
‘What good is a psychotherapist going to do?
My family is full of damaged people who really need help but they also grew up with the idea of thinking therapy is for crazy people and that they don't need any help or the fact that it's very expensive to receive proper care.
That’s because, while depression is a mood disorder, prolonged grief is a stress disorder, akin to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and rooted in a different region of the brain.
It's interesting that although you would think that because grief causes you to be sad that it would make sense if it was more connected to depression but it almost makes sense that it causes extreme cases of stress and that's why it's related to PTSD.
When the number of deaths went up during COVID-19, the number of pathological grievers, naturally, went up, too.
This makes a lot of sense because COVID presented us with a new fear. It was new, very similar to some of the illnesses we are used to seeing yet it was potentially deadly and we didn't know when or if the world would become normal again. In a way, it never went back to normal and people were never the same. It was an experience that everyone experienced and it effected us all in different ways.
It is how people die that determines whether the survivors will develop the disorder
This grabbed my attention because it’s the first large text that shows up in the article. So, when I was skimming, it caught my attention. Also mentioning that sometimes it depends on how someone passes that determines how the brain interprets it.
When grief doesn’t end
This grabbed my attention because it’s almost philosophical in nature. The way the title is very profound because it’s not a question nor a statement but it’s causing you to think ‘what next?’ or ‘what about it?’ Grief is a very complicated and deep feeling. This article seems like the focus is grief from a death which is a topic that I’m still afraid of.