An effect of trauma

Grief from a recent loss

Not all grief is stuck or complicated. Some of it is just real and recent and devastating. The loss is fresh. The absence is everywhere. You are not broken, you are bereaved. This is the effect of losing something or someone that mattered, and not being on the other side of it yet. It does not have to be pathological to belong here.

It can sound like

“I just lost someone and I am devastated.” “I do not know how to do this.” “I am not okay.” “Everything reminds me of them.”

If any of those sentences live in your head too, you are in good company here.

Experiences this often follows

Effects do not come from nowhere. These are some of the experiences that people who carry this one often describe. You do not need to have been through any of them for what you feel to be real.

Nothing on this page is a diagnosis, and nothing here decides what is wrong with you, because nothing is wrong with you. Something happened to you. This page exists so that when you are ready, you can find people who understand it from the inside.

You do not have to carry this alone.

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