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

Grieving starts the moment that you hear of the loss. It will look different for everyone; so some people cry, others might scream, but if none of that happens that's okay too. Sometimes it can take a while for the feels to come - like it's not real almost. Remember: whatever you are feeling is okay. Even if you are laughing and having a good time, that's okay. There isn't any right or wrong when it comes to grief. Hope you are okay and feel free to PM a listener if you want to talk.

In my experience it has always started right away. If you mean by death, then I again state usually right away or within a short amount of time. If by a fight, then the grieving may take until you are able to calm down from the argument and be in the right mind space to process what happened, and usually it will be in the days that follow that you will start to miss them as you realize you aren't hearing from them through calls, texts, visits, or whatever you two normally did together. It's when you find yourself wishing it hadn't ended.

Everyone grieves differently. Not everyone goes through all the stages. You will know when you have begun to grieve them.

The grieving process is different from everyone. You will feel sad, angry, frustrated, loss, acceptance, and more. Accepting is on your way to healing.

From my personal experience I'd probably say immediately if they really meant a lot to you. However if your friendship did fall apart then it just wasn't meant to be.

my answer here would be that grieving them starts from the minute you know that you are going to lose them. If we are talking about losing because a person dies then this can begin before that person is dead. If you know sometime in advance that their death will be coming then you are likely to begin the grieving process from the moment you know they are dying. It may be that there is no way of "knowing" how and when that grieving started until later on in your own journey.

I like to take a look at the cycle of greif and try to decypher what I am feeling in it. And I remind myself it's ok to jump all over the cycle, things don't allways visably happen in any order or for a specific time period either.

The grieving starts at different times for everyone, you may be going about your day trying to put it out of your mind cause you cannot believe the reality of losing the one person you talked to about everything the most, it really starts when it settles in that this is infact the reality that they aren’t coming back anytime soon as much as it hurts and you may want them to, it will also include lots of crying and chocolate ice cream and having sweet memories of when you two where together through thick and thin for each other.

Grieving starts when you move on to do something that you would do with your best friend and then you realize that you can't do it with them because you aren't in the same relationship anymore. It may make you feel empty, maybe you feel very upset. However, that initial moment just reminds you that you have lost something good that you used to have, whether it was a good thing or a bad thing. It marks the moment where one starts to feel many negative emotions. However, over time this process does start to feel easier, in between it may feel more difficult, healing is not linear. But, in the end, things do turn out better.

I know when grieving starts because I begin to think about all the good times I had with them. I feel a heavy pain and I have no motivation for anything. I begin to feel lost and then I go into a state of disbelief and I don't truly believe that they are gone. Whether that be a loss of a friendship, relationship or the death of such. Then you learn to accept it and then you learn to live on but keep them with you forever. Grieving is hard but everyone goes through it. Its a part of life