From the course: Dealing with Grief, Loss, and Change as an Employee
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Common emotional reactions
From the course: Dealing with Grief, Loss, and Change as an Employee
Common emotional reactions
- Most common emotional reactions of grief are seen with the expression of sadness, helplessness, anger, disappointment, and frustration. Certainly anger and helplessness may be present if one believes that the death could have been prevented. People may also describe feeling stuck or numb, like they're sort of frozen in a limbo state and almost kind of frozen to life, physically alive, but absent joy or the experience of aliveness and absent looking forward to new and engaging experiences where they find it difficult to have fun or feel happy or excited because they remain a bit fearful of reengaging fully in one's life, afraid to take the risks to be out there and to be hurt again. It's also common for people to describe feeling guilty. Sometimes it surfaces as one thinks about moving forward in life and feeling guilty emerges, especially if one believes that, you know what, I could have done something more. Now, in some…
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