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

For me, it started immediately because I didn't have any close friends around me at that time. But it's different for everyone, as long as you have someone to talk to about how you feel, things will get better.

Losing a best friend stirs up a plentiful of emotions in the beginning. May it be sadness, anger, guilt, nostalgia or something else, you soon reach a denial phase. Sometimes it takes forever to reach the stage of acceptance, but eventually, you come to acknowledge the truth of losing your best friend, something you've never once thought possible when you guys were still best friends. But, through that acceptance, it's when you truly start grieving, because you're able to put aside all these other emotions to solely give a proper goodbye to this once precious friendship and move on to new ones.

Grief is such a personal experience that there is really no way to know exactly when you will start that process. Losing a best friend is absolutely heart-wrenching, and my heart goes out to you if you are going through this. In my life, I have lost so many close friends so I really sympathize with what you're going through. There is no real process for grieving a friend. You might think you've finished one day and then something will happen and it will trigger all those memories and make you feel all the pain again. It's just important for you to take your time dealing with the concept of losing someone who means so much to you and understand that it is natural to feel anything from anger to despair. But just remember, this too shall pass.

When you realize they've actually left. When you start think about what they could've been in life.

you'll honestly just know you'll miss them lots cry maybe grieving is hard almost like a job with no perks but you'll just know

I think it starts as early as you're ready. I'm going through this currently, and I think while some hurt right away, others may be numb at first.

Having experienced loss myself, I would say it starts right away, though the experience of a "process" of grief isn't necessarily textbook. These feelings will change and evolve over time, though you may not be outwardly reacting now, it may happen (or not) in the future and you could still find yourself reacting strongly even years down the line.

You would know when grieving starts when you feel lonely, depression, and you might sometime later in life get a fear of death.

Grieving usually starts right away. There are five stages, but I'm not sure what they are. But it's definitely hard

It really just depends on the person. Sometimes, people don't really process the death until years later when it hits them like a brick. It's different for everyone and no one is wrong or right.