Types of Losses
Losing your cell phone with all your contacts, apps, and pictures.
Material Loss
"This can't be happening"
Denial
Why do we deny our losses?
Protection from grief.
Name one unhealthy and one healthy way you've responded to a loss.
Appropriate answers only :)
True or False: We grieve according to our attachments.
True! No matter what you lost, it's the attachment that matters.
You break up with your partner.
Relationship loss.
"It's going to be okay."
Acceptance
Often a precursor to acceptance, the individual recognizes their loss and it's impact.
Depression
Minimizing
True or False: The only way to get through grief is to actually grieve.
True!
Not knowing who you are or your place in this world
Loss of identity
"Why is this happening to me?"
Anger
Trying to change or delay their loss. For example, they may try to convince a partner to return after a break up
Bargaining
Blaming other people for the loss when we are angry
Displacing
True or False: The stages of grief happen in a progressive, predictable order.
False! Although they are described as "stages," they do not happen in order.
You stop using substances (Alcohol or other drugs)
Loss of lifestyle / relationship with substance
"What's the point in going on after this loss?"
Depression
Arguing about the situation or trying to place blame
Anger
Response after losing childhood home to fire: "At least your house wasn't burnt as bad as your neighbor's"
Comparing losses
True or False: Every loss is grieved the same
False. (We grieve each loss differently based on the type of loss, what or who we are grieving, and how where we are in our recovery
Grandparent passes away
Death Loss of a loved one
"I'll do anything to change this"
Bargaining
Name all 5 stages of grief
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
"At least they're in a better place." "Everything happens for a reason."
Rationalizing
What are 5 losses?
Any acceptable answer!