How to cope with grief during the COVID-19 pandemic (via CNBCMakeIt)
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered everyone's daily lives, including how people grieve the loss of a loved one.
Rituals that we typically rely on to say goodbye to people, such as having funerals, sitting "shiva" or visiting a loved one in the hospital, are also being taken away from us due to, R. Benyamin Cirlin, a licensed clinical social worker and executive director of the Center for Loss and Renewal, tells CNBC Make It.
If you or someone you know is struggling, here, experts provide insight for people coping with loss in the COVID-19 pandemic.Grief can be a profoundly isolating experience under normal circumstances, Lennon Flowers, co-founder and executive director of"Part of the experience for people is this feeling of removal from all of your peers and your normal day-to-day, because suddenly you're there is no more normal," she says.
Flowers suggests making a list of people who you're going to call every two weeks or deciding among your friends and family to share "check-in duties" for someone who you know may feel isolated right now.and see if they can pass along opportunities. "The goal of grieving ultimately is to learn how to love a person via absence," Cirlin says. It allows you to slowly make some narrative sense out of a life that, may have ended in a way that doesn't make sense to you, he says.
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