Title: How does grief affect weight gain or loss? Studies show that appetites are often diminished, which can lead to serious weight loss - Thriveworks
Headings: How does grief affect weight gain or loss? Studies show that appetites are often diminished, which can lead to serious weight loss
How does grief affect weight gain or loss? Studies show that appetites are often diminished, which can lead to serious weight loss
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Content: For example, according to the aforementioned article, the course of grief may proceed as follows: Numbness
Pining
Disorganization
Reorganization
The first period, that of numbness, often strikes soon after reality hits the grieving individual. They feel emotionally numb for typically a few hours or days, and then they move into the second phase: pining. They start to pine after their lost loved one, and they grow anxious because that pining can’t be fulfilled. That said, for a little while they continue functioning relatively normally—eating, sleeping, going to work… only indifferently. But then their everyday functioning takes a plummet. Their appetite becomes diminished (and they lose weight as a result), they struggle to concentrate on the activity or job at hand, and they slip into an irritable, depressed state. Eventually, the individual then moves into the third phase of grieving, which is marked by disorganization and despair. They constantly think about the loved one lost, even pondering his or her death—how it all went wrong and how they could have helped prevent it.