Title: Multiple losses: How to Cope with Loss & Change - Grief In Common
Headings: Multiple losses: How to Cope with Loss & Change
Multiple losses: How to Cope with Loss & Change
Content: Multiple losses of several loved ones, all within a relatively short period of time: And finally, the sad truth. Of all the multiple losses a person can experience or bring to discuss in a bereavement group, this is the one that I hear most often. Whether it’s the multiple losses of a parent, child, spouse, sibling or friend, there is no good combination and no easy way to cope with so much death. People who are losing their loved ones so close together start to feel like everyone around them is fragile. It becomes easy to lose faith that things could be okay, and it’s just too hard to pick up the pieces again when so many of the people we would normally turn to for support are the ones we have lost. And now, the “now what?”. In previous writings I have discussed why grief is so hard and why it lasts so long, and that’s because so often I find grievers come to a support group and say, “I don’t know why I’m having such a hard time”. My answer? This.