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The First Few Days

You have just lost someone very close. Having to cope with the next few days is a frightening thought.

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What to expect in the first few days

Your grief is a mixture of many different emotions. Some will hit you straight away. Others will come later. It may help to have some idea of what to expect. You may experience some of the following during the first few traumatic days of grieving. They are all normal, understandable feelings to have.

Initial Disbelief: Refusal to accept death.

Shock: Numbness, even after long-term illness and expected death.

Confusion: Loss of sense of purpose. Poor memory, forgetfulness, unreliability. Distortion of time. It appears endless. Disorientation.

The Need to Cry: Crying is an important part of healing. You must allow yourself to cry whenever you can.

Depression: Disturbed pattern of sleep. Loss of appetite, inadequate diet or excessive overeating. Lack of concentration. Extreme fatigue, even exhaustion. A sense of hopelessness. Despair. Thoughts of suicide.

Anger: Towards G.P., hospital, oneself, lost person.

Anxiety: Restlessness. Inability to relax.

Guilt: Feeling more could have been done to prevent death. Regret that cross words were spoken. Guilt over things not said or done. Over wanting another relationship. At feeling relief over death, a sense of emancipation. The especially distressing circumstance of suicide produces very acute feelings of guilt and self-recrimination.

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It is impossible to think beyond tomorrow. Try to manage one day at a time. It seems that nothing can be normal again. It takes great courage and hope to believe that this terrible time is the start of a long journey of recovery that occurs gradually over months. The first few days and weeks are the hardest.

There are people around you who want to help. You can contact one yourself or ask a friend or relative to do it for you. Ask one of our team, or your own G.P.

The long journey to recovery

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