A loss other people cannot seeStep 1 of 8

Before you read on

If you are having thoughts of ending your life, tell someone today and contact your doctor or an emergency service today. If the loss is coming back in images that arrive without warning, or in nightmares, if you are avoiding more and more places and people because of it, or if you feel detached from your own body or that things are not real, that is a different picture from grief and it has its own treatment. Take it to a clinician rather than to a course.

Lesson 1 of 6

A bereavement that gets no funeral

Somebody died, or somebody who was going to exist now will not, and the world carried on without pausing.

There was probably no funeral that anybody attended. No leave from work. No cards. Nobody said the name, because in many cases there was no name. Within a fortnight people stopped asking, and some of them never started.

That is a bereavement with the whole social machinery switched off. It is not a smaller grief. It is a grief that has been given nowhere to go, which is a different problem and it is the one this course is about.

A loss other people cannot see · Inshirah