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Your Brain on Grief, Your Heart on Healing
Losing someone to a mental illness evokes profound grief—akin to the losses felt through divorce. Individuals struggling with mental illness walk amongst us, their presence an absence—a haunting of what might have been.
Amy Wright Glenn • Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go
Thus our strange relationship with the pain of grief. In the early days, we wish only for it to end; later on, we fear that it will. And when it finally does begin to ease, it also does not, because, at first, feeling better can feel like loss, too.
Maria Popova • Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All
The Science & Process of Healing from Grief
hubermanlab.comGrief is a frightening condition, and at its extreme is like the sun: impossible to look at directly.
Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things
When we lose someone we love, our brains struggle to adjust to their absence. Love is what psychologists call a “bonded relationship”—it relies on our belief that we and the people we love will always be there for each other. And when that’s no longer true, at least in a physical sense, it can feel like part of you is missing. In fact, O’Connor arg
... See moreMelinda Gates • The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward
The pain of missing loved ones who have died, or a way of life that has ended, occupies a similar region of the heart where spiritual longing resides.