By Jane E. Brody — 2019
“Loss is simply what happens to you in life. Meaning is what you make happen,” the author of a new book says.
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Parents who have suffered the loss of a child are generally offered limited physical and emotional space for bereavement.
There is a care farm in Arizona where rescue animals are helping people deal with traumatic grief.
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Demand from patients seeking help for their mental illnesses has led to underground use in a way that parallels black markets in the AIDS pandemic. This underground use has been most perilous for people of color, who face greater stigma and legal risks due to the War on Drugs.
Frankl’s thesis echoes those of many sages, from Buddhists to Stoics to his 20th century Existentialist contemporaries: “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
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"But now we’re asked — and sometimes forced — to carry grief as a solitary burden. And the psyche knows we are not capable of handling grief in isolation." - Francis Weller
The mismatch between the knowledge and the longing is perhaps the most anguishing of all human experiences.
The five stages of coping with dying (DABDA), were first described by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her classic book, "On Death and Dying," in 1969.
Learning to live with grief and loneliness after the death of a spouse.
Death, regardless of the details, is capable of devastating those it leaves behind. Brother, sister, son, daughter, mother, or father – all losses are significant.
Some people harbor the illusion that rest is a luxury they do not have time for, but the reality is that rest is a necessity.