Struggling with the pain of grief, loss or bereavement?
Two Doves Therapy with Martin Watson. Here to help you manage with your bereavement, grief and loss
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“Losing someone we love can be a painful, shocking and a deeply upsetting experience”
Losing someone we love can be a painful, shocking and a deeply upsetting experience.
There is no right or wrong way to feel if you’ve lost a partner, parent, child or friend and such loss, grief and bereavement can affect people in many different ways. There are often some common feelings experienced during such difficult times.
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Help is Here
“Losing someone we love can be a painful, shocking and a deeply upsetting experience”
Losing someone we love can be a painful, shocking and a deeply upsetting experience.
There is no right or wrong way to feel if you’ve lost a partner, parent, child or friend and such loss, grief and bereavement can affect people in many different ways. There are often some common feelings experienced during such difficult times.
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The Five Stages of Grief I Can Help With:
In 1969 Elizabeth Kubler-Ross identified five stages of grief that are linked to bereavement. Her thinking has led to my understanding of how to help you on a path to coping with a significant death or loss in life.
- Denial
- Anger
- Bargaining
- Depression
- Acceptance
What Next
Let’s face the shadows from the past together
Some common topics that come up during therapy
- Difficulties in relationships
- The feeling that something isn’t quite right
- The struggle of living with depression and anxiety
- Old familiar persecutory voices
- The debilitating power of loneliness
- A lack of self-belief or low self-esteem
- Feeling stuck
- Covid19 and the fear of losing your income
- Covid and powerlessness
- Covid and feeling isolated and unheard
Common symptoms of loss and bereavement
Often the first reaction to loss are feelings of pain and shock. You might feel numb, detached or disconnected from others, from the environment and from yourself. This is quite normal; it is the way we cope with loss as we try to figure out what has happened. These experiences are felt both physically and emotionally. They are very difficult to face and speaking about them is without doubt the first step forward. You are not alone, and I would like to help you.
When experiencing a sudden important loss, you might find yourself feeling overwhelmed with sadness. This is a painful and difficult experience and often accompanied by a deep longing to have one more moment with the person you have lost. You might not have had a chance to say goodbye, to say how you feel about them, to make amends or even say sorry.
Experiencing such powerful wishes and feelings are very difficult to think about and manage, particularly if you are trying to do it alone or feel you are alone. You might feel detached from others around who just don’t seem to understand what you are going through and what it’s like for you.
A period of depression at such times can be normal as you try to process at having to adapt after a significant loss. Overwhelming feelings and unresolved thoughts and questions as to how this may have happened, why them or why me can leave many people sinking beneath the surface.
Trying to understand and manage this alone is so hard and difficult but the first step to relief is to speak about these feelings and I am here to listen and help. There has been a lot of research into the process of coping, managing and accepting painful losses and it may help you to know you are not alone.
You might feel angry at how unfair life can seem, that you have been left alone to struggle with the loss and grief. It is completely normal to experience anger at such times, as you try to understand and manage the stress or injustice of being left and sharing this is the beginning to feeling better and beginning to cope with the hole left in your life.
Anger might then be followed by guilt at feeling such strong feelings towards yourself at having these powerful overwhelming feelings. This is normal, this is ok, and I understand how difficult it is to manage such distressing times.