Most People Who Suffer A Loss Experience One Or More Of The following
Feel tightness in the throat or heaviness in the chest
Have an empty feeling in their stomach and lose their appetite
Feel guilty at times angry at others
Feel restless and look for activities but find it difficult to
concentrate
Feel as though the loss isn’t real, that it didn’t actually
happen
Sense the loved one’s presence, like finding themselves
expecting the person to walk in the door at the usual time, hearing their
voice, smelling their perfume or seeing their face.
Wander aimlessly and forget and don’t finish things they’ve
started to do around the house
Have difficulty sleeping, and dream of their loved one
frequently
Experience an intense preoccupation with life of the deceased
Feel guilty or angry over things that happened or didn’t happen
in the relationship with the deceased
Feel intensely angry at the loved one for leaving them
Feel as though they need to take care of other people who seem
uncomfortable around them, by politely not talking about the feelings of loss
Need to tell and retell and remember things about the loved one
and the experience of their death
Feel their mood change over the slightest things
Cry at unexpected times