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How long is too long to grieve especially when it’s been unresolved?

Effloresce · 26-30, F
Everyone’s grieving process is different. When I am able to properly grieve, it typically takes me half a year to feel somewhat normal again. With unresolved grief, the crushing feeling comes back again and again for years without warning.
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If your life stops for more than a couple of weeks then you need to get some help, simply because that is unsustainable for most people, financially and practically. If you are functioning and living but still feeling it, that can obviously go on for longer without being fundamentally bad for you although I would suggest that if you are still greatly unhappy after a year then again you need to seek some help. The residual pain can last for years but should be sporadic and fleeting rather than constant.
OKWTF2 · 51-55, M
So hard to say. Sometimes the loss and pain does not go away. You just learn to function better with it and it stops dominating your mind.

Sorry, not an answer you are seeking, but the sun is still going to rise, your painful loss will still... the day is going to be what you make, and having a good day is not an insult to the memory of your loved one.

A day, or even a night that it doesn't invade your thoughts does not mean you started to "forget" them.
It is just living.
bearinthebigbluehouse · 26-30, M
Uh, kinda wanna say "never" but... Eeeeeeeeh, I think there comes a time when long enough is long enough so................... Depends.. ┬┴┬┴┤•ᴥ•ʔ
alan20 · M
Its the unresolved bit that's the problem. For some it seems to fade away naturally. We're all different.
midnightsun · 26-30, M

 
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