SOME RESULTS & SYMPTOMS OF GRIEF
Jeanne M. Harper, MPS
· Profound feeling of sadness, emptiness and loss of meaning
· Tightness in the throat or heaviness in the chest
· An empty feeling in the stomach and loss of appetite
· A restless need for activity, yet difficulty in concentrating
· Occasional untypical anger or irritability
· A feeling that the loss isn't real, that it didn't/won't actually
happen
· Wandering aimlessly, forgetting easily and being unable to finish
tasks
· Difficulty sleeping
· Extreme weariness and lack of energy
· Feeling guilty or anger over things that happened or didn't happen
· * Feeling a need to protect others who seem uncomfortable around
us, by not talking about the feeling of loss, even when the need to talk is
greatest
· Needing to remember, re-live, tell and retell certain memories of
the experience of loss
· Feeling mood changes over the slightest things
· The need to cry at unexpected times
· Feeling tension between the need to face the pain of loss and the
desire to avoid pain
Clinical Director of Tri-County Business ‘n Industry Incident Response Team
1996-1998 ADEC Workplace Loss Special Interest Group Chair
Lakeshore Professional Counseling, Inc.
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Menominee MI 49858
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