Prolonged Grief

Everybody goes through grief. Whether it’s grief over death, divorce, moving, job loss, disability, disease, aging, or relationships, you’re not alone.

There are no school courses or job trainings for these significant changes in our lives. A single experience can generate different degrees of effects depending on the circumstance and the people involved.

When there are multiple losses, changes or disruptions, there is an exponential impact on the sufferer. And when these experiences extend over a long period of time, as we are going through recently in America with polarized politics, economic uncertainty, and pandemic chaos, prolonged grief is the result.

Prolonged grief brings with it a whole set of complicated behaviors: addicts relapse, depressives turn fetal, the anxious erupt, and everyone, at some point or another, begins to grow isolated and fatigued. The important thing to remember in situations like this is you are not alone in your grief. Others have gone through it before, and there are professionals to help you through it.

Here are some first-step resources I recommend for clients who are battling multiple issues causing compounded and prolonged grief:

Ambiguous Loss by Pauline Boss

When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold Kushner

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Have a look at them and let me know what you think, and, as always, take good care!

Dale