Why do we insist on categorizing grief and mourners in ways that make mourners feel abnormal or in need of being “fixed”?
Grief is not a disease, a mental or emotional disorder, a bad attitude or perspective, or a misbehavior or sin. Grief does not need to be cured, diagnosed and medicated out of existence, fixed, recovered from, or avoided. Grieving people are not sick, broken or crazy. Mourners are simply experiencing a natural, human response to the loss of a person due to death. In order to heal, mourners need to receive support, comfort, encouragement, information about grief, and enough time to move through grief. Grief is not an event which is gone through quickly. Grief cannot be rushed. Grief is a process which takes time and patience on the part of the mourner and his or her support system.
Natural healthy grief serves a purpose. Grief is a…
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