It Is An Immense Loss Losing Your Parents And Counseling And Therapy Can Help You Cope Better

| Tuesday, September 6, 2011
By Winston Dunbar


Then it is certainly one of the biggest losses of one's life when one loses a parent. Stranded and at an unfortunate and irreparable loss a person feels all alone. To recover from it is indeed a life altering shock and takes several weeks and months. With passes on and you are numbed with grief and loss the person who you feel most secure and protected. The grief is all the more overwhelming if the death has been untimely. By experts which can help you overcome these feelings of overwhelming grief there are quite a few ways suggested.

If you feel like crying all the time then it is normal for you to feel so and you must cry freely and let it all out. Do not let your grief cooped up inside because it could cause depression, anxiety and even panic attacks in future and this psychologically damaging. It is important that you communicate freely to your close friends and family about how you feel about losing your parents. Sharing and expressing thoughts is a healing and peace providing exercise. The people closest to you can offer you words of encouragement, listen patiently and offer help with the many chores which you need done at home or work.

To deal with it losing your parents is not a joke and one might need professional help like counseling or joining a support group. The realities of life and you would find yourself slowly returning to your normal self somewhat counseling can help you grasp. Through this terrible loss therapy sessions are also quite beneficial to those who have gone. It consist of people who have suffered or undergone similar tragic and unfortunate incidents in their life with support groups. From this enormous loss and that there are others in the same boat as well you would find that you are not the only one in this world who has suffered. By stories of people who are bravely struggling to return to normalcy you can get enlightened.

In your parents name or a charitable organization which helps those in a dire need you can create a trust. To honor them and pay your respects this selfless act of yours would not only have made your parents proud but it is a great way. With hobbies or recreational activities which you enjoyed doing at one time you must keep yourself busy. Your mind diverted and happily occupied as it would help you keep. Your thoughts and deepest feelings about the loss of your parents you may also jot down. With grief this would also be a great way to feel lighter and less burdened. To be a great support do keep in touch with your siblings and their families and if you don't have siblings then friends could prove.

Remember the things which you liked to do with your parents and the activities which you are enjoyed doing as a family. Revisit those happy times, indulge in those activities again whether it is playing games, gardening, splashing in the pool, going for an outdoor activity, reading, going to a restaurant, a museum, a park or a beach. Revisiting those fun and happy moments can offer your great amount of peace and comfort.

A parent is the person who teaches us all the basic things and morals which we follow all our life. He or she is the person who gives us unconditional love and support. He or she is the person who mentors and guides us and acts as our safety net when we are down, in fact they gave us our very life. To lose this person is indeed a great, immense and irreplaceable loss. We must keep reminding ourselves of the values they taught us and we imbibed from them. We must follow the path which they showed us and know the right from the wrong. Remember they would be the happiest to see a sensitive, mature and compassionate adult they brought up. This is a way to honor their memory and all the values, ethics and morals that they stood up for and tried to teach you and inculcate them in you.




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