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

It's common to feel a sense of numbness or vague pain after the death of someone close. You may also feel a sense of guilt and anger or even a deep depression. The grieving process is different for everyone - the important thing is that you try and work through it, stay close to those who love you and stay strong.

grief is a small word to describe what one feels when he lost someone close to heart.....grieving start from the moment you realize you will not be able to talk to each other ever...that moment is most painful one.....

I have lost both my best friend and my brother, who was my friend as well. In my experience, grieving them started a bit after I lost them. At first, the initial emotions were shock and intense sadness, but not a sense of long, burning grievance. After truly accepting what had happened, I began to grieve them. I would think of them, or something would remind me of them, and I would feel that sense of longing and pain that I began to attach with their names. I guess how I knew I started grieving them was that I accepted the fact that I had lost them, and started to feel the pain of not having them.

Everything just feels empty.It is not like you lost a half of yourself,it is like losing your true self.Sun doesn't shine as bright as usual and it feels like it doesn't even exist.Everything slows down and you can feel the physical pain,like your heart is being ripped out.

I was 9 when I lost my best friend Carter he was my world, he died of leukemia at 11. I new my grieving started when I would think about him and tell myself I'll see him tomorrow or the next day or whenever. But as i grew up i realized that everyday I missed him, I was living for him, so i accepted the fact that I lost the one person that would wear a dress and complain a little.

It depends entirely to the depth of yer emotion, and based on how much ye valued him or her throughout the entire ship. Personally speaking, the moment I lost mine was the very first second I grieve and it went for a solid time, every second of my life until this very minute.

There's almost always shock after the loss of a person who you care for. Shock can last from a few minutes to days, or even weeks. Grief sets in after the shock wears off. There's different stages of grief but they often blur together. Once you get past the initial realization, you may be angry at the world or yourself, sad that they are gone, or a multitude of other emotions. You can tell that grief has started once you start feeling more emotions in a more vivid way than you have before. Grief can invoke all kinds of responses and emotions and it will definitly be slightly unique to you, but its ok and while you will have a unique situation there are others who are going through or have gone through the same thing. These people and your friends and family will help to support you and give you a shoulder to cry on. You should never feel alone when you have them. Life will continue. You will survive.

Immediately I think. Losing a source of support is hardest part in life. Never lose hope, and if you miss them too much, communication is the key.

My best friend died a few years ago after a long illness. I would say the grieving started before that, when they finally said they couldn't do anything more for her and put her on hospice. She wasn't able to get out and do anything, all I could do is visit. Toward the end, she couldn't even talk much and they put her into a drug induced coma. When she finally passed away, there was a hole in my life. The support, the joy, the love of that person was no longer there. When you feel the hole, that is when you know.

It will start immediately. It just feels numb first, which is still a form of grief because your body literally doesn't want you to feel it's pain, but then your body will begin to fully realize what has happened and start to take you through the stages of grief.