How grief counseling is treated in patients?

Grief is a type of reaction in which patient encompasses from the feeling of dissatisfaction, behaviors and thoughts that are different from person to person as per background, gender, culture belief, relationship and personality. All in all, grief is the feeling of loss by the individual who feel regret, guilt, anger, depressed and a sense of meaninglessness is developed in present. Some peoples also feel liberation and a sense of relief. In terms of strengths of person to person, emotions can be surprising in every stage. The behavior can also be confusing as per the expectations of the griever like having a painful relationship.

Thoughts and behaviors in grieving

There are many types of thoughts come in mind during grieving such as “It was my fault, I could have done even more” “I can’t do anything” “it is not good time for me” and so on. The people suffering from grieving have bouncing thoughts from positive to negative and sometimes thoughts can be soothing and troubling.  The behaviors are also surprising and can go from crying to laughter, silently and suddenly doing anything like fixing, cleaning and exercising and sharing the feelings at any time. Grieving activities can be done by oneself or being with others.

There are two basic styles of expressing thoughts, feelings and behaviors that people express in grieving:

1.  Instrumental: People express their feeling with doing various activities like playing, dancing and exercising and other types of habitual activities.

2. Initiative: In this type of grieving, people share their feelings, start sharing about their lost relationships and express their philosophy about life.

Duration of grief counseling

The consulate fact is that grief feeling is limited for a specific period of time and this is natural. It can occur from any event or relationship or from any time i.e. from two weeks to about 2 years. The grieving sometimes gives the experience of contentment, joy and humor while sometimes it gives the feeling of sadness. There are some activities people can do to soothe their mind including work-out, generate strong support and optimism. This is possible to recover from grieving and can continue with their usual activities while there are people still feel the sadness usually for six months. There are some people feel great after having the grief counseling for about a year or two. The grief can last for longer time especially for six months or a year.    

Grief recovery

The treatment goes on people who can’t accept the truth like they lost someone forever and they don’t accept to live in reality of loss. In simple words, they live in their past and don’t accept the present. In this way, they have the worst memories that are really becoming the fact of depression for them. Hence, the experts, who have proper griefcounseling degree, can treat these people and teach them to adjust with the current environment so that the grievers don’t allow past loading on them. They basically try to divert the mind of griever from sadness to the facts of happiness.