Loss

An obstacle frequently encountered, during this up hill climb, is wanting everything to be the same as it was before the loss. This is impossible. Life is forever changed. After a significant change, life event, or loss, that person is forever transformed. Changes that may result from the loss need to be assimilated so the grieving person can start living again in a world without their loved one or one altered by the loss or life-changing event.

The Loss, Change & Grief section contains a various grief AIDE resources to help visitors to this site understand more about these topics starting with general information, how to recognize acute responses to grief, and recognizing the different complications of grief. This section also helps visitors to assess for the risk of suicide as well as identifying the warning signs and symptoms that may require further evaluation. Finally this section includes a variety of ways of coping in general and with the “blues” along with suggestions for helping adults and children who are grieving.

Each person's experience of loss will have subtle nuances that will make it unlike any other loss, but the commonality—the grief response with the intense feelings of loss, anger, depression, loneliness, fear, frustration, desperation, these are emotions that others will have also felt, endured and survived.

Education is one of the best ways to understand the grief response and aide people in recovering from loss. The Journey of Hearts’ objective is to normalize grief, by educating the public and professionals and raising awareness that grief is a ‘normal’ response to loss. With Grief AIDE we hope to improve the health of those grieving by providing resources, support, and education so that the public and healthcare professionals are more aware of the normal grief response. Greater awareness of the grief response will increase the chances that the correct diagnosis is made and that people will get the support they might need to help in assimilating the loss.

Rendering Grief AIDE to those who are grieving increases

Awareness by the public, patients and physicians, so that patients will be more comfortable bringing up the topic with their physicians and physicians will consider loss and grief in the differential when seeing patients. Identify the signs and symptoms of the grief response, determine what is normal grief, what is depression and what is a potentially serious medical condition and decide what can be treated and what should be referred. Diagnose the grief response in our patients and help the grieving get the support they need to integrate the loss. Educate patients, the public and colleagues in healthcare field to help normalize the grief response.

It is important that people understand that grief is not like a cold or an illness that one “gets over,” rather grief is something that gets better over time.

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