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Reflect on the C. S. Lewis quote: “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” In what ways do you think grief feels like fear? How does that make coping with grief/loss difficult?
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I have seen people I know struggle excessively with fear while grieving. I wonder if some of it is a weary mind processing loss makes one vulnerable.
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I noticed that people I know who suffered loss became very fearful . Therefore I can now identify with those words from CS Lewis. The fear of living without the most thing is cripling. It is a n emotional not rational ferking. This makes things difficult
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Grief feels like fear because something unexpected happen and we doesn’t Know what to do with it. No one can prepare for loss of loved ones but have to deal with it in different ways.
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It changes our physiology. We no longer feels as safe as we did– everything is different now. Having a new normal
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My mother died of congested heart failure on Feb. 15, 2019. My brothers and I watched my mom suffer through such pain and physical ailments and we each begin to fear about our own health. I have to really concentrate even today on not letting my mom and dads deaths from their illnesses affect me negatively. It was grief but also fear over what could be and what they could have done differently.
