You may
experience feelings of loss after an abortion regardless if you feel you made the best decision.
Many couples
experience feelings of loss and grief that can last for quite some time.
For example, thoughts return to the break - up,
you experience feelings of loss and have emotional responses to stimuli associated with the relationship, which can include flashbacks.»
When these people have to miss an exercise session
they experience feelings of loss, guilt, physical and psychological discomfort.
In the same time in case of weaning, women might
experience a feeling of loss and grief.
Not exact matches
As alone as I
feel sometimes, everyone has
experienced some type
of loss, and anyone halfway decent will understand and sympathize.
«Houston and other nearby communities have
experienced devastating
loss and destruction, and we
feel compelled to do our part to support relief and rebuilding efforts,» said Tad Taube, chairman
of Taube Philanthropies.
If you're into the empty nest
experience, or on the verge
of it, I suggest that you each list in your growth log all your
feelings about this new reality in your lives — the anxiety, grief, freedom, depression, anger, expectation,
loss, remorse, emptiness, and joy.
Experiences during this process include
feelings of unreality and shock, physical distress, preoccupation with the image and memory
of the lost one, pouring out
of grief, idealization
of the deceased, guilt
feelings, anger,
loss of interest in usual activities, the unlearning
of thousands
of automatic responses involving the deceased, relearning
of other responses, resumption
of normal patterns
of living, and the establishment
of substitute relationships.
The anxious sense
of loss experienced by Jesus» parents is transferred to the Christian who
feels at times that he has lost Jesus, only to be assured that Jesus was never lost, and that through His Word, our Lord always keeps us close to Himself.
My
experience has strengthened the empathetic bond I
feel with others who have handicaps and with persons who have gone through any kind
of major
loss.
What makes this novel approach perfection — and two comments on the book jacket actually employ the word — is the way Ishiguro leads the reader into Stevens's life through his own words, enabling us to
feel his pride in being a «great» butler and at the same time
experience the pain
of personal
loss which he is utterly unable to acknowledge.
«The compensation,» writes a German author, «for the
loss of that sense
of personal independence which man so unwillingly gives up, is the disappearance
of all fear from one's life, the quite indescribable and inexplicable
feeling of an inner security, which one can only
experience, but which, once it has been
experienced, one can never forget.»
It is in response to this pessimism about perishing that Whitehead's cosmological speculations turn into theological ones.19 He interprets the religious intuition
of divine care as one in which the immediacy
of our
experience is contained in God's
experience without fading, without the
loss that we
feel in our own temporal perishing.
The courage to accept the restlessness and
loss in the cosmic adventure is given in a genuinely religious faith that all achievement
of intensity
of feeling as well as all perishing is finally salvaged and creatively transformed by God's own
experience.
The death
of his mother when he was six and
of his father when he was 16 pushed Merton into an intense
experience of the vulnerability
felt by so many between the wars, and led to a cosmic sense
of loss and nearly to a breakdown, both physical and mental — a vulnerability he described as «living on the doorsill
of the Apocalypse» (ibid.).
Even though at times I
feel a
loss of freedom when I have to avoid gluten, or when my daughter can't partake in the dessert being offered at a party, I prefer to think
of the freedom from all the health problems we
experienced before being allergy - free:
I have worked with many individuals and couples who have
experienced traumatic births and
losses, and
feel honored every time I get to be part
of the healing process!
'' I believe there is a tremendous amount
of shame and
feelings of failure that manifest as anger towards our bodies when we
experience a
loss during pregnancy.
You may not have physically
experienced pregnancy, but the
loss was still yours and it's healthy to discuss how the
loss of the pregnancy may have affected you — and how you are
feeling now.
And I can understand that the women who
feel they had a bad birth
experience are trying to reclaim that sense
of loss of control that they
feel they
experienced, but I think there are a couple
of reasons for this.
My heart is with all those who have
experienced this kind
of loss today, and my prayer is that you will not
feel alone - that your baby is recognized as the deeply loved individual that he or she was - and that you
feel supported and seen as we walk this journey together.
Like most people who
experience a form
of infertility or pregnancy
loss, she
feels misunderstood (for lack
of a better word) which only adds to the pain
of the... [Read More]
My plan was to graduate, do my post-grad study and then go on to counsel families who've suffered a traumatic birth
experience, and raise awareness for post-natal PTSD and other mental health conditions which are exacerbated by the
feeling of loss of control during labour.
This means they should
feel a bit tight when I first put them on, but not so tight that I
experience swelling or
loss of blood flow.
These
feelings are often similar to those people commonly
experience after a significant
loss such as a divorce,
loss of a job, or death
of a loved one.
If your child goes through a traumatic
experience such as a divorce, death
of a loved one, car accident, moving to a new house, etc., they may become hyperactive and even giddy as a way
of coping with their
feelings of loss.
Typically these are not sad
feelings over the
loss of a child but rather sadness that the
experience has come to an end.
You read the stories
of the anxities
of pregnancy after
loss, how the enjoyment is taken out
of the
experience because
of fear, and its so recognisable to me, that
feeling.
By creating the #LGBTBabyLoss blog series and section on my website, I aim to present a diverse collection
of stories about
loss and life after
loss that enable other LGBT families
experiencing baby
loss to
feel less alone.
How a woman
feels towards her body during a pregnancy after
loss will depend on a number
of factors including her prior relationship to her body and what it means to her be pregnancy currently as well as the specifics
of the
loss she
experienced.
All
of these
feelings are such a common
experience in pregnancy after
loss and it's another part
of the grief process that can sometimes be unexpected.
Although, I am sure the anxieties
of pregnancy after
loss are more heightened than what I
experienced, I'm just saying that I recognise those
feelings.
While most surrogates agree that they don't bond as intensely with their surrogate babies as they do with their own children, you may
experience feelings of grief or
loss following the birth
of the baby.
The complexities
of pregnancy and infant
loss are explored by survivors themselves rendering this must - read book a first hand personal narrative that invites people to
feel less alone in the aftermath
of such devastating
experiences.
Now in private practice, Maureen focuses on work with families
experiencing parenting challenges, families facing co-parenting challenges after separation, bereaved parents who have suffered the
loss of a child, and caregivers
feeling compassion fatigue.
This is a grieving process for the
loss of the birth
experience of which you
feel robbed.
To honor that and the moms * who have lived through the
experience of a miscarriage or baby
loss, I wanted to share with you just how common the occurrence is, what the
experience can
feel like for some moms, and ways friends and family can help.
You might react to different parts
of others pregnancies: for example, if everyone is sharing how far along they are, and someone is nearing when you had your
loss, you might
feel afraid for her as a result
of your
experience.
For me, the triggers were a traumatic birth
experience, a
feeling of complete isolation and lack
of support when we got home again, and that total
loss of identity that can come with giving up a career and becoming a mother.
If you're
experiencing deep sadness and grief over what
feels like the
loss of not only your ideal child, but the child who used - to - be, it's okay.
After the meds kick in (which takes about 10 to 20 minutes), you'll
experience a
loss of feeling from the waist down and contractions will become less painful.
Never had I
felt such a strange mix
of emotions — I was elated to know that at least one
of my children was alive but I was so very scared that I was going to
experience another
loss.
Heightened anxiety might also look like the inability to fall or stay asleep (and lack
of sleep only exacerbates anxiety); implementing rituals or repetitive behaviors as a way to ward off anxious
feelings (to varying degrees
of success); continuing to
experience peak anxiety after your
loss week has passed (though often times, this is because
of knowing support from others in the
loss community and learning that
loss can happen at anytime in many different ways); and losing relationships as a function
of others not being able to manage or cope with your anxiety.
And I
feel them when, last month, celebrating fifteen years
of marriage, I
experienced a love there between my husband and I, stronger in spite
of (or maybe even because
of) the times we pushed away from one another, grieving so much
loss together but more often, separately.
For those, I
feel sadness about the
loss of experience, but no sadness over the choices we made.
A quote from Mrs. Bergman's letter is engraved on the nameplate wall: «It doesn't matter from which department they came, the
feeling of loss is
experienced the same.»
Under psychedelics, the sensory overload may overwhelm the thalamus, leading to delusions, hallucinations, thought disturbances,
feelings of persecution, and
loss of coherent ego
experiences.
Mounting evidence suggests that
experiencing a sense
of loss -
of - control during eating —
feeling driven or compelled to keep eating or that stopping once one has started is difficult — is the most significant element
of binge - eating episodes regardless
of how much food is consumed, according to the researchers.
Working It Out In her 1980 book The Courage to Grieve, social worker Judy Tatelbaum wrote that after the death
of a loved one «we must thoroughly
experience all the
feelings evoked by our
loss,» and if we don't «problems and symptoms
of unsuccessful grief» will occur.