Markers, and each one has an action

Grief is not a condition and most of it does not need a clinician. These are the pictures that do, and none of them is a comment on how much you loved your child.

You are having thoughts of ending your life. Tell someone today and contact your doctor or an emergency service today.

The loss comes back in images that arrive without warning, or in nightmares. Take that to your doctor and use the word intrusive, because it gets you to the right person faster.

You cannot be in the places or around the people that remind you, and the list is getting longer. Same route.

You feel detached from your own body, or as though things around you are not real. Same route.

It has been many months, the intensity has not shifted at all, and you cannot function at work or at home. Same route.

You are avoiding all medical care, including care you need for yourself. Book one appointment, for yourself, and tell them why you stopped coming.

You are drinking or using something to get through the day. That goes to your doctor and it goes soon.