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10 Things No One Tells You About Grief
1. The 7 stages of grief are not sequential events. They happen all at once, every day.
2. Stepping out into public for the first time feels as if you are wearing your grief like a cloak that everyone can see. But no one pays attention, because they are already burdened by the weight of their own cloaks.
3. A lot of the time you simply feel numb.
4. Being afraid to look your loved ones in the eye, because if you do they will surely realise how close you are to falling apart.
5. When it happens, you will crave company more than you ever thought possible. The moments that you are alone are the hardest to bear.
6. The more time that passes, the harder it gets to talk about it.
7. Hearing about death on TV and in the media doesn’t have the painful effect you always expected.
8. You will have moments of normality and you will feel immensely guilty about them.
9. Feeling inexplicably angry with your loved ones when they stop treading on eggshells around you. They haven’t forgotten and they haven’t stopped caring.
10. It’s easy to put on a brave face.
#7 is bullshit.
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