Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace. Gill Hasson

to talk about other subjects, constantly returning to issues of loss

       Inability to concentrate on daily tasks

       ‘Ignoring grief' and ‘pushing through it’

       Refusal to get up from bed

       Impatience with self and others

       Using or increase in use of alcohol, recreational drugs, cigarettes.

In terms of that horrific pain and inability to see that life will ever be the same again – yes grief does end. Do you get over grief? Absolutely you do – with love. Is there joy? Absolutely. But in those early days I never thought grief would end. In my case, it took quite a period of time. Those first 5 years. . .grief is very shocking. I miss her every single day.

       Joely Richardson. Actor

      Although Joely says, that for her, ‘grief does end’, many people experience the death of a loved one and subsequent feelings of grief differently. Their description is that they learn to live without their loved one and find a ‘new kind of normal’ in their lives. It has been described by some as a ‘slow healing quarry of grief’.

      The grief is not always present for them, but there are times that, as one person has said, ‘I drop into my grief, with the same intensity, as if it happened yesterday’.