Loss is a significant part of life that is inevitable. At some point in life, every single human being is tested on this. It can be the death of a loved one or a breakup that creates a deep irreversible emotional wound. Surpassing this journey by battling this internal war single handedly is not a cake walk. Therapy comes handy here as it creates a path to navigate through these difficult emotions productively and sensibly. In other words, a structure is designed for those grieving losses in a way that it lets them experience every vulnerable emotion but also be open to new ones that replace the old.
This is a healthy space to vent out the unbearable parts and be transparent with no one to judge. It is dealt with utmost sincerity by mental health professionals as grief is a tricky puzzle to unravel as it requires relentless commitment and efforts from a therapist’s end to let the clients feel safe to be emotionally naked.
Restarting a whole new journey by redefining ideologies and refining personal and professional lives after losing a significant individual for one is a heavy challenge to face.
Some successfully walk past it by experiencing every emotion that comes in the way and by putting their social backups to use as healthy ventout channels.
However, grief is very subjective and there can be many who repress these emotions that pent up and come out in uglier ways later. There can also be people who do not have people to talk to in this deep melancholic journey.
GRIEF COUNSELING IN INDIA: WHO IS IN NEED OF IT?
There are various symptoms that are detectable in individuals who are undergoing an explicit journey of grief. These are as follows:
- EMOTIONAL: There is a huge emotional weightage that comes with grief. This can include intense and frequent feelings of anger, guilt, frustration and profound sadness. This can come out through consistent crying, feeling numb and dead.
- BEHAVIORAL: Overt expressions of grief can often be misread and even misinterpreted by strangers. This can be having emotional breakdowns over unrelated matters when grief is expressed unconsciously. This is portrayed differently when experienced consciously with meltdowns or anger outbursts that signify deep underlying guilt. There is immense meaninglessness experienced in the mere existence.
- PHYSICAL: losing someone you love does not just break you emotionally but also has the potential to rip your body apart. This reflects the strong ties between the body and mind or physiological psychology aspects. It can be projected in many ways like through panic attacks or through experiencing frequent tremors or through anxiety symptoms.
GRIEF COUNSELING IN INDIA: STAGES OF GRIEF EXPERIENCED
Grief is a complicated emotional matter. This is simplified in stages to chronologically understand how grief is dealt with by individuals on the surface level.
- Stage 1: Denial is the phase wherein there is plain disagreement to come to terms with the fact that the loved one has passed or has rejected you. This is due to pure shock.
- Stage 2: Anger follows denial as there is still no rationalization of the entire experience. You are using primitive defenses to fight and ultimately suffer through this journey of grieving your important loss.
- Stage 3: Bargaining is the regressive defense part that more or less puts you in a spot to take your chances by pleading the return of your loved one as there is a realization of the fact you can only do so much now.
- Stage 4: Depression is the gloomy stage that is leading to the acceptance stage more or less as there is only sadness left now and all one can do is mourn the loss of a loved one for instance and soak in the deep melancholy instead of attempting to make sense out of it.
- Stage 5: Acceptance of the loss is when a practical closure is attained that helps one see through the unclear lens by cleaning them out. Acknowledging the absence of the individual in your life and choosing to move on is all that is possible and plausible at this point and hence, that choice has to be made no matter how much it stings.
GRIEF COUNSELING IN INDIA: BEREAVEMENT GROUPS
Grief counseling operates differently for different people and so highly sensitive and empathetic therapeutic measures must be taken in terms of talk therapy.
People with prolonged grief disorder can be placed in bereavement groups to signify that they are not alone. There are many going through similar experiences and it is not the absolute tip of a cliff scenario. The idea instilled revolves around the fact that there is always more to receive and offer in life. At the same time, the loss experienced is acknowledged and not neglected as it is an extremely essential turning point. The only modification done is about the ‘HOW’ this journey is dealt with.
Why CoachForMind?
- Experienced Psychologists: We are a team of licensed RCI-registered clinical psychologists. Our team is well-experienced in various forms of therapy such as CBT, DBT, ERP, Narrative Therapy, and grief counseling in India.
- Personalized Approach: We are dedicated to treating our clients in the best-suited way, carefully curated as per the client’s needs, and adhering to one-on-one, client-centered therapy. Therapies would be tailored according to the needs of the client diagnosed with OCD and any other related symptoms.
- Scientific Techniques: Our treatment plans and therapeutic methods are based on highly researched scientific findings such as CBT, DBT, and Narrative Therapy amongst many others used in OCD treatment in India.
- Quality service: We at CoachForMind ensure quality services in our treatment regime and therapeutic approaches. Our clients hold most value to us, so we ground our techniques in empathy while maintaining professionalism.
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