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Healing Through Grief: Taking Care of Your Mental Health | Solh Wellness

  Undoubtedly one of the most terrible experiences in life is losing someone or something you hold dear. We may feel perplexed and adrift, unsure of how to move forward with our life when a key person, vital function, ability, or period of time is abruptly taken away. Grief is a normal process that affects everyone at some point, and it is the strong range of emotions that flood through us during these moments. Grief for some people may feel like a heavy weight on their chest. Some people might experience feelings of emptiness, loneliness, confusion, tiredness, guilt, unbelief, or even anger. It's common for people to experience a combination of these feelings as they deal with the aftermath of a loss, and this variance is quite acceptable. It's critical to understand that everyone experiences grief differently and moves through it at their own time. Although it's common to link sadness with the loss of a loved one, any significant loss that fundamentally impacts your life—

Impact of Grief on Mental Health | Solh Wellness

We have all experienced grief at some point in our life, whether it was due to the death of a loved one or a job. In these cases, we delay processing this emotion because we wish to dismiss it because it makes us so uncomfortable. Our mental health must endure numerous negative effects as a result, though. Anguish felt following a great loss, typically the passing of a loved one, is referred to as grief.  The "KUBLER ROSS MODEL" was first presented by Elizabeth Kubler Ross, one of the pioneers in the field of grief research, in her book "DEATH AND DYING". The Kubler Ross Model , states that those experiencing grief go through a series of 5 emotions: DENIAL ANGER BARGAINING DEPRESSION ACCEPTANCE DENIAL- “This cannot be happening to me, this isn’t real” In order to protect themselves from the sorrow, people go through sad times where they act as if nothing ever happened. ANGER- “Why did it have to be me? this is not fair!” People around here are notorious for stoking

Tips to Understand and Navigate Grief | Solh Wellness

Grief, a response to loss, includes emotional suffering brought on by both large and insignificant losses. Even though mourning is frequently associated with severe emotional anguish, knowing its historical background can be illuminating. Around the start of the 1200s, the word "grief" first appeared in the English language. It originally meant experiencing agony, suffering, and adversity. The name has its roots in the Old French word "grief," which denoted misfortune, and the noun "griever," which denotes loads or sorrows. The Latin words "gravare" and "gravis," which imply to make heavy or weighty, respectively, can be linked to this Old French origin. This historical evolution highlights the ideas of weight, suffering, and difficulty and makes comparisons to how we today perceive grief as an emotional torment that manifests physically. Many people describe their sorrow as a burden on their shoulders, a heavy covering over their heart