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Grief
Your
children are worried about you. You've been doing nothing
except pacing about the house and garden during the day,
and flipping through your photo albums late into the evening.
You've stopped going to church.
Your
kids have finally convinced you to get out of the house
and have dinner with them. But you insist on going somewhere
new. How could you go to your favorite restaurant without
her? As it is, you keep thinking about how much she would
have enjoyed the fish, how proud she would have been that
your son is graduating, and how happy she would be for your
daughter and her new boyfriend. No one talks about her,
but she is all you can think about.
This
chapter covers the following topics:
- Grief
- Something
Like Grief Can Be Experienced in Other Circumstances
- How
to Cope with Loss
This
excerpt may not be reproduced without written permission
from the publishers.
Fifty Signs of Mental Illness: A Guide to Understanding
Mental Health
Yale University Press / New Haven and London
Copyright © 2005 by James Whitney Hicks
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