Coping w/ Grief

What is Grief ?

• when your depressed

• It is the sorrow caused by the loss of a loved one.

• when your feeling sad

• It is when your experiencing troubling emotions

What are Coping Strategies ?

• Strategies used for coping with the loss of movie characters.

• They are ways of dealing with the deaths of only family members.

• Ways of dealing with loss only about friends.

• They are ways of dealing with the sense of loss people feel at the death of someone close.

Which is not a good coping strategy.

• Doing drugs

• Crying some of the time

• Talking to others

• Being anti-social

What are the 5 stages of grief ?

• Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance

• Acceptance, Sadness, Upset

• Denial, Anger, Trade, Depression, and Acceptance

• Negotiations, Manipulating, Psychotic, Pathological, and Delusional

What is Denial ?

• It is the belief that depression can be counted as a loss.

• The method that someone uses to say no.

• It is the belief that a loss or serious disappointment never happened.

• A belief or experience that never happened.

What is Anger ?

• When you don't feel good about something

• The intense bitterness or rage about a situation/loss

• The feeling you have when someone makes you feel sad

• Intense emotion over a certain topic

What is Bargaining ?

• Negotiating a price to sell something to someone

• Helping the cops or FBI catch criminals..

• Negotiations with a terrorist

• When you try to make a deal in order to fix your disappointment or bring back a serious loss

What is Depression ?

• Grieving over something petty

• Suicidal Thoughts

• Deep sadness; The reality of the loss that begins to sink in.

• Being sad for a little while

What is Acceptance?

• It is when you feel ready to move on with your life and the pain lessens.

• When you get over a problem

• When you accept that no one will love you :(

• When you mourn the death of someone you love

How do you help a friends cope with grief ?

• Yell at them.

• Tell them to shut up and get over it.

• You comfort them and allow them to express their emotions.

• You let them cry all day and the next.