Women’s Center
9/1/2017
Day 59
Friday
Nine days until Ethan’s birthday. And I just realized that I missed an appointment on 8/29/17 at 11am with my psych nurse. Great. Right at the wrong time to not get my meds evaluated.
This place is SO DISORGANIZED IT DRIVES ME CRAZY.
I don’t feel good today and it’s making me irritable.
Book:
- Flashbacks
Flashbacks come automatically without warning or apparent trigger. They haunt the mourner. They fill the mind; they intrude, blocking out the present.
- Health Problems
Physical symptoms persist throughout the acute mourning.
- Meaninglessness
“What reason is there to get up in the morning after your child has died?” Coming to terms with this vacuum of purpose is one of the important tasks of the grief-work.
- Adapting
- “If we are unable to let go when death demands it, we are often unable to hang on when life requires it.”
–Vamik Volkan
- Staying Connected and Letting Go
Altruism seems to be an antidote to grief when the time is right.
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