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   Grief and Severe Personal Losses:

   Dr. Ralph:
These Trying Times of Grief are Not a Clinical Disease but
certainly cause very deep emotional wounds, sadness, loneliness,
confusion, relief, guilt and so many mixes of feelings. Sometimes
they can also cause more serious, kinds of clinical depression.
   Please Take A Look at Our Depression Page.

* For Severe Personal Losses from: Major Life Changes through
Divorce, Terminal Disease, Grief, Losing or Being Separated from
Loved Ones, a Job or Locale Change, Status Shifts...

• The are so many things that hurt badly when we lose them.

• There's the loss of our plans, dreams and an entire way of life. 

• The loss of a life's work & purpose in retirement and simply
  getting older & losing abilities & energy require serious adjustment.

• Whether it's temporary or long term, the loss of our
  physical freedom and imposed limitations is very hard.

• Being forced to stay at home, from disability or illness can go
  from being boring and quiet to becoming disheartening & lonely.

• The most severe pain is when we lose someone we dearly love.

• Why do I feel so guilt. Like it was my fault? I could have stopped it>

• Sickness, disease, accident and death are harsh realities.

• Suddenly we are shoved, roughly into another unpleasant world.

• There's nothing you can do to make things the way they were.

• I realized with great fear & pain and how very little we control...

• There's the sickening feeling of emptiness and loneliness...

• You never know when something will trigger a memory,
  and then there's the broken heart and the tears...

• Will today be a good day or a sad day or an anxious day?

• When will it hit ?Will I break out crying, or get angry, or very sad...

• I just miss them so very much. There's a big hole in my heart!

• There are the frustrations, limitations,
  adjustments, serious changes and responsibilities.

• And there is also the anger, rage and guilt.
  Why God? Why God Them? Why God me? Why God now?

• Will it ever get better? Do I really want it to get better?

• I'm so tired but I know I must go on. Why?

• I Really Need to Talk, and A Lot, to Someone Who Will Really Listen!