After you lose your best friend, how do you know when grieving them starts?
adorableSalamander47
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Jul 31, 2016
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You know it when you suddenly start crying and dont know how to stop. Your face remains neutral but tears are flowing all over it. You start to remember the little moments you had with them. You just want to yell so hard but sometimes you cant. This is when you know the real experience of a word called grief.
Cyaroni
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Dec 9, 2017
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When you feel a pit in your stomach.
When it feels like a piece of your heart is missing.
When you want to talk to them, but know you can't.
When you catch yourself consistently thinking of them.
Losing a friend is never ever easy. It doesn't matter the circumstance, whether it be by choice or by accident, everyone eventually loses a friend.
The best thing you can do is allow yourself to grief. There's nothing shameful in being upset over the loss of someone important to you. Cry, scream, talk to others who are close to you, and obsessively talk about them until you can't anymore.
Accepting these feelings is the first step to recovery.
VoicelessPoet
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Aug 1, 2018
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It starts of feeling almost as if you have a hole in your chest. Sometimes it hurts sometimes it doesn't. Life would start feeling grey and everything you did enjoy would become too painful; to do anymore.
insightfulPerspective50
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Jul 18, 2016
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After losing someone so close to you, I really think the grieving process starts immediately even if you may not really be feeling any emotions at all. Everyone grieves differently and once you do start feeling emotion whether its anger, sadness etc, it might even come and go but eventually become easier. Its important to really feel the emotions when they come and to make sure you take care of yourself.
Anonymous
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Oct 26, 2018
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usually the first step of grieving is thinking that they didn't and that they're going to come back once you realize there not going to you might start to blame it on yourself that it was your fault when it wasn't after that you start to realize that you cant do anything about it but you just need to talk to someone and cope with the feeling because it can be really hard sometimes grieving will usually include crying temporary depression and wanting to stay away from things people or places that remind you of them. Another thing to realize is that it wasn't your fault! :)
Here2Hear247
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Dec 10, 2016
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It can be healthy to be aware of the grieving process, but don't obsess over when it starts and when it ends. Grief takes its own time depending on who you are and what you lost. You may feel depressed, angry, anxious, annoyed, or all of the above. Give yourself permission to have those feelings and do good things for yourself. You've been injured. You deserve a fair chance to recover. Focus on being good to yourself and those around you instead of the time it takes to grieve.
Anonymous
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Dec 10, 2017
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Everyone is different, though I believe the entire process begins immediately. Everyone reacts differently to different situations. It is common to feel anger, sadness, and emptiness. We can even feel numb, due to the initial shock of situations like this. These different emotions are heavy at times, but they do ease off. They can come and go, but in the end, it eventually does get easier.
Anonymous
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Aug 11, 2018
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Everyone grieves in there own way. Some people don’t grieve until years later. Some grieve straight away.
Anonymous
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Aug 12, 2016
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I lost my best friend to suicide a while a go. I knew the grieving started the minute i did something and the only person i wanted to tell about it was her
Anonymous
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Jul 23, 2016
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Grieving is different for each person and depending on who the person is who has passed away, how they have and the relationship they had with you, can all affect the grieving process. There is no right or wrong way and there is no right or wrong way to feel. Acceptance that the person is no longer here is perhaps one of the very first things that those left behind have to go through and this is no always as easy as other people may expect. Some people upon hearing that someone has died, feel nothing, others feel anger, others feel numb. you will know if you listen to what you feel and to what your heart tells you
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