I would like to start a discussion board about how people have dealt with loss. It can be any type of loss. If you have any advice for anyone struggling with a loss please post a comment.
My advice is basically that the pain will never completely go away. They things that helped me the most at the worst times of my grief have been to find a way to vent. Since I am an artist I would draw or paint to help vent my emotions. If you can talk to someone it can help but I had a hard time talking at all.
Another thing that helps is writing. I started out writing in my journal, as if talking to an imaginary friend. It will be a friend that is silent, cannot judge or say the wrong thing. Now as you may know from my previous posts I am writing a memoir about the experience. This has been instrumental in helping me remember what happened. Some people may want to forget, but my biggest fear was that it would become unreal over time and feel like it was all a bad dream. I want to remember it. It has changed me as a person, and I want to embrace those changes and use them to make myself a better more appreciative person.
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