How can you overcome grief and sorrow?

Question

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Answer 1

Keep yourself busy doing something good for others and take it hour by hour. Time is the only thing that helps ease the grief-- but there will always be a part of you wishing for the happier moments with the one you lost.

Answer 2

To what extent is "overcoming" grief and sorrow really what we are trying to achieve? There is no dishonour in feeling pain for our loss, in openly having feelings of betrayal, lonliness, confusion or fear or in sharing in the same of others.

Humans are naturally creatures of emotion and empathy, and to try to hide these traits does not do ourselves justice. We need to acknowledge and praise these aspects of ourselves, no matter how much it may hurt some times. Only when we admit to ourselves that these things are here to stay can we really begin to appreciate the positive aspects of our lives.

Grief is always accompanied by memory, and in memory, thought and deed can we keep the dreams of those who have departed alive. Similarly, through sorrow can we learn from the past and divine much of the reality that is being vulnerable, and use our experiences to help those around us and to shape the future for the better.

We must not allow these things to be tossed aside as the unfortunate byproduct of the human condition; they are an essential part to our continued development, both as individuals and as a community.

Answer 3

Be patient with yourself. It can take a long time to go through the various stages which might include denial, anger, depression and even sort of bargaining with God or whatever you believe in....It might be helpful to get some counselling, and a good source of bereavement counselling (in the UK at least) is CRUSE. Many churches run groups for people in this kind of situation - my local Anglican church near London runs something called "Footprints", named after a poem which you can read at http://www.geocities.com/Nell_46/Footprints.html

Answer 4

With the help of good friends and family or just someone who you have respect for.These feelings come with the package of life.To know what happy is you must experience sad.If you carnt be happy be content.

Answer 5

Never do what i did,don't turn to alcohol,it only helps for a short time,then seems worse than ever when you sober up,time is the only thing that helps

Answer 6

you never overcome grief or sorrow the sad thing is you have to learn to live with it xx

Answer 7

Homoeopathic remedies - Ignatia if it's a recent grief & Nat-Mur if it's longstanding.

Answer 8

Move on with your life and don't duell in a negative pool of defeat.

Answer 9

Time. It's the best healer.

Answer 10

Appreciate what you have, no matter how small it may be, appreciate what you had no matter how little it was, appreciate what you will have, no matter long you have to wait for it to come to you.