First Response Grief Counseling
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Ohio Bio has now taken steps to start a Grief Counseling response unit that will allow us to provide on site counseling and professional assistance to those who are in need.
Our certified grief councilors work directly with those closest to the victims to help provide needed support and a listening ear.
Understanding The Grieving Process
When a loved one is dying or dies, there is a grieving process. Recovery is a slow and emotionally painful one. The grieving process can be less painful if you try to understand that loss and grief is a natural part of life. Learn to accept your loss and believe in yourself. Believe that you can cope with tragic happenings. Let your experience be a psychological growth process that will help you to deal with future stressful events.
The grieving process usually consists of the following stages. Note that not everyone goes through all these stages.
Denial and Shock At first, it may be difficult for you to accept your own dying or the death of a loved one/classmate. As a result you will deny the reality of death. However, this denial will gradually diminish as you begins to express and share your feelings about death and dying with other students or friends.
Anger During this stage the most common question asked is “why me?”. You are angry at what you perceive to be the unfairness of death and you may project and displace your anger unto others. When given some social support and respect, you will eventually become less angry and able to move into the next stage of grieving.
Bargaining Many students try to bargain with some sort of deity. They probably try to bargain and offer to give up an enjoyable part of their lives in exchange for the return of health or the lost person.
Guilt You may find yourself feeling guilty for things you did or didn’t do prior to the loss. Forgive yourself. Accept your humanness.
Depression You may at first experience a sense of great loss. Mood fluctuations and feelings of isolation and withdrawal may follow. It takes time for you, the grieving student, to gradually return to your old self and become socially involved in what’s going on around you.
Please note that encouragement and reassurance to the bereaved student will not be helpful in this stage.
Loneliness As you go through changes in your social life because of the loss, you may feel lonely and afraid. The more you are able to reach out to others and make new friends, the more this feeling lessens.
Acceptance Acceptance does not mean happiness. Instead you accept and deal with the reality of the situation.
Hope Eventually you will reach a point where remembering will be less painful and you can begin to look ahead to the future and more good times.
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