How does grief affect our physical health?

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It shows up in many ways like stress, not eating or over eating, chronic pain, and digestive disorders which in turn decrease mental performance. Whether your brain is releasing cortisol and adrenaline, stress will show up.
What do “chronic stress-induced” wrist pain, tension headaches, and shoulder soreness symptoms have in common? Grief.
People vacillate between positive and demeaning thoughts, sympathizing with themselves, and simultaneously judging the merit of self-indulgence. Multilevel internal conflict takes place beyond our conscious control, making it impossible to reason.
No less debilitating is the devastation inflicted when you grieve who you’ve lost. It is impossible to escape the void left by abandonment. It is quite affordable, however intensely sorrowful at times, to neglect thinking about it, which disallows altering perception and belief disallowing positive change.
Rhonda McIntosh gives quite an accessible overview of the effects of pain on mental performance even though her focus is more on injury. It’s more accurate to say that an injury combined with psychological pain renders a brain and body unconscious, motionless.
Physically, emotional pain manifests in ways identifiable by diverging from self-imposed perception of control. The more steered, the more constrained will become thoughts. An aching reality forces people to realize unshakable relationships cannot be escaped, yet reality reveals otherwise.
Take this theoretical little body, trying to escape a suffocating zone of control. Primary paradox emerges when distress intention faces sense of address, resulting in chasing invisible challenge.
Walls become confines in which approaches can guide perception, leaving a person with a portion of blank canvas they wish becoming. Discrepancy iseffects what keeps outside of undeniable natural limitations, discovery in self-imposed constraints.
Vented emotions offer make or break types of freedom ever born. Breathing created Meyer’s shift illustration instantaneously fills spaces thought closure. A majestic flight when envelop when closing their compactable envelope fails thrust. So inflating wings allows external restrictions, draws thinner than thicker boundaries.
What creates those inflating wings vent guides freeing comfort and restoring joy energizing lack of hope needed while turning white-blue-black inside, flailing in people, pointless clothes. Empowering to believe there yet.
Possibility invites creating and gives pleasure transform into blank overflowing, like denying nurture results in inching to and freeze battling thinking into.
Forming is reaching solutions braided whose flows energize living people, urge means destination guide conditional meeting forth.
Using capeclothes undermines multiplicity harvesting mind until achieving envisioning motions implies safeguarding unfurling.

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Buried my mom's mom on a Monday, my husband passed away that Wednesday, then my dad's mom passed away that Saturday.. I was 31 then.. 3.6 years later.. finding joy in every day, small things. Making muffins for the neighbors, sitting with my kids and just listening. I like the ball in the box concept... at first the ball fills the box... then as time and healing goes on, the ball gets smaller, but when it does hit the edges, that feeling is still there. Forever. Birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, special moments and accomplishments with my children... my life perspective is forever changed..and it's very hard to take a lot to seriously anymore because you can plan... but I'm a believer in fate. Put your best foot forward and do not apologize for the things you need as you grieve. So many opinions. But only you know.
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this is wild… I've spend years trying to manifest my dream life but it never seemed to work for me, I always hoped for a sign that something would finally shift. I believed in manifestation but didn’t know how to make it actually work. Then someone in a podcast recommended Manifest and Receive by Eva Hartley and it just instantly clicked. The way she explains things, it’s like she’s speaking directly to your soul. That book is the reason I’m living my dream life today. If you’ve been waiting for a breakthrough, this is it❤️❤️
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What an amazing episode ❤ hope she comes on again!
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My daughter died suddenly when I was 39 weeks pregnant with her. The grief is overwhelming and earth shattering and then 2 years later, I lost my beloved cat at 18 years old. It left me with an inability to connect with anyone.
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Lost my ex when I was 17... she accidentally overdosed on sleeping meds. She suffered from schizophrenia. I'm 32 now and honestly have tried for years to find someone similar, and ive always had bad relationships because it wasn't the same. Something was always missing until I went for someone totally different. To help my own sanity.  It still hurts and when I find people with her lovable quirky personality or looks I still somedays lose myself.  But I'm happy ive finally moved on a bit.
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thank you so much!
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This is good. My husband died 11 years ago. We hide this normal process away which does not help! The Irish Wakes are sorely missed.
But I have a friend (bereaved) who doesn't want to learn change her state. A type of addiction I'd say.
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Just recently lost my dad who had a strong fun personality. Sometimes I am in pain and crying because I miss him, but other times like today I feel his absence but not the pain of his loss, however, I feel very lonely and bored without him despite being with others and busy
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Absence.... It is easy to edit your comment, if you would like to... And I am very sorry for your loss.  My Dad is still alive and "well" at 89 y.o., but he has lost his previously fun and funny personality.  I am grieving.
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My dog Rex, the greatest dog in the entire world recently passed away definitely need this episode thank you
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I know, me too!
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I'm so sorry for your loss. Humans truly don't deserve dogs, and yet they love us the way they do.
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My oldest child, a trans man, won’t talk to me, and I don’t know why. I have reached out with sincere love and humility to tell him open to hearing from him why, but he is neurodivergent and inflexible, so it’s now just part of my life that I don’t know where he is or what he’s doing. There is a dark hole in me that will NEVER go away.
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Thank you for this content!!! Wonderful discussion and incredible guest!
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Today I found out that my grandmother has stage 4 pancreatic cancer with metastases to the liver and I am devastated… I dont know how long she will live… the content comes at the right time to prepare for the loss that lies ahead of me
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“...There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.”
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I was just going to suggest this!! Thank you so much
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In my opinion, this is the main reason we are here. Learn how to forget, let it go. Welcome to The Mourning Project!
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This content is super valuable, thank you.
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Brilliant Woman!
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Andrew! Thanks for asking exactly the question I wanted to ask again and again… I lost my husband suddenly a year ago, and still can’t understand how I’m supposed to mange this hard time of grief (my own and my teenaged kids grief) without him by my side.
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This is what I think about having a non traditional life and not a partner. So, when you lose your primary attachment figure, grief and death feels especially vulnerable.
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Love this topic. I am hoping you will discuss ambiguous grief too.
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