After you lose your best friend, how do you know when grieving them starts?

If you lost a good friend, I'm sure there are many emotions you are going through. You may feel angry, upset, lonely, or many other feelings. It may take time to actually realized what has happened to your close friend, or you may be impacted by their loss right away.

When you have a feeling of sadness and emptiness. Which is completely normally it's the start of the grieving process

I believe that grieving starts as soon as you loss a friend, especially a best friend. The numbness and/or soul shaking that you first feel is part of grieving.

It is a personal experience for each individual. You may notice deep sadness when you really notice the person is absent from your life, whether in daily activities you did together, when all the visitors have left following the death and you are on your own to face the reality. You may start to feel overwhelmed, guilty, a feeling of emptiness, sadness, anger and may lose your appetite, be unable to sleep or perhaps find it difficult to get out of bed or continue with regular activities

A phase where it feels like something is missing in everything. When you're happy and you reach out to your phone with excitement to call that one person but suddenly remember they don't exist anymore. When things you did together is all a memory and it will never be the same again. Times when you wanna yell and cry out their name as loud as you can, but they wouldn't be there to listen. To feel that a part of your life is gone and it's never coming back. When everything you do is to try and honour their memory so that one day, sitting out there in heaven, a smile shall pour over what you've become.

Grieving is a difficult process that can be experienced in many ways. Some people have different ways dealing with loss than others, and that is completely normal. Grieving usually starts when you get it on your head that that someone is really gone and not coming back. Usually, people stay in denial for a little while when they learn that someone very close and dear to them is gone, and that is completely normal, because it's a lot to take in and a lot of emotions to process. I hope you can feel better soon and am sending all the support you can take!

It's an extremely complicated situation but you will eventually grieve - it might take some time, but once their absence and the realization of their passing sinks in, you'll slowly reflect on all of the tiny things that you shared together.

You'll know by how you personally feel, there is no set time or duration and it is a completely personal process, it may be hard but the grieving will stop and the good memories are who they were, not the sadness you feel now

Sometimes your grieving can come on all of a sudden sometimes longer due to shock , when your unable to keep your emotions at bay , when you are not doing the things that you used to love , day to day normal tasks , it is a natural way of bereaving some just take longer than others .

Well, grief is not a switch which turns 'on'. I believe grieving starts the moment you first realize what you've lost. For me, it starts off with little things like not having anyone to call or sharing my favorite songs with. And it seems very trivial initially. And then over a matter of few days, it just grows on you till you break down. And then, you learn to build up again :)