Grief

Some of the things you may feel or experience after losing someone:

  • Loneliness
  • Not wanting to be around people
  • Lack of concentration
  • Anger
  • Sadness
  • Changes in appetite
  • Changes in your sleeping pattern
  • Challenges to beliefs
  • Despair & hopelessness

Grief

To grieve is normal – and it takes time.

It is normal to feel a sense of shock when someone close to you has died. Experiencing shock can mean you have a physical and an emotional reaction. You may feel dizzy, nauseous, dazed, numb or empty.

Everybody grieves differently and lots of things can affect the way that people experience grief. There is help available. As the shock and numbness lessens you are likely to start grieving. There are different factors that may affect the way people grieve. Knowing these may help to understand yours and other people’s reactions to the loss. If someone’s reaction is different to yours it does not necessarily mean they care less. Some reasons why people grieve:

  • The type of relationship they had with the person
  • Gender – males and females may have different ways of managing their grief. Males are more likely to feel restrained while females are more likely to share their feelings
  • Cultural background – cultural groups express grief in different ways
  • Other Losses – the new loss may bring up previous loss, which can trigger more grief. There is help available

Help and support is available to you or someone you know who is grieving from the following:

  • Barnardos
    www.Barnardos.ie Bereavement counselling
  • Hope Centre, Enniscorthy.
    Bereavement counselling (death through cancer) – 053 923 8555
  • Family Life Services Wexford
    info@familylifeservice.ie – 053 912 3086
  • Anamcara www.anamcara.ie
    Parental and sibling bereavement – 01 404 5378
  • Irish Childhood Bereavement Network
    www.icbn.ie – Directory of services.
  • Irish Hospice Foundation
    www.bereaved.ie Advice and assistance website

Grief

Some of the things you may feel or experience after losing someone:

Grief

To grieve is normal – and it takes time.

It is normal to feel a sense of shock when someone close to you has died. Experiencing shock can mean you have a physical and an emotional reaction. You may feel dizzy, nauseous, dazed, numb or empty.

Everybody grieves differently and lots of things can affect the way that people experience grief. There is help available. As the shock and numbness lessens you are likely to start grieving. There are different factors that may affect the way people grieve. Knowing these may help to understand yours and other people’s reactions to the loss. If someone’s reaction is different to yours it does not necessarily mean they care less. Some reasons why people grieve:

  • The type of relationship they had with the person
  • Gender – males and females may have different ways of managing their grief. Males are more likely to feel restrained while females are more likely to share their feelings
  • Cultural background – cultural groups express grief in different ways
  • Other Losses – the new loss may bring up previous loss, which can trigger more grief. There is help available

Help and support is available to you or someone you know who is grieving from the following:

  • Barnardos www.Barnardos.ie Bereavement counselling
  • Hope Centre, Enniscorthy. Bereavement counselling (death through cancer) – 053 923 8555
  • Family Life Services Wexford info@familylifeservice.ie – 053 912 3086
  • Anamcara www.anamcara.ie Parental and sibling bereavement – 01 404 5378
  • Irish Childhood Bereavement Network www.icbn.ie – Directory of services.
  • Irish Hospice Foundation www.bereaved.ie Advice and assistance website