These are some of the definitions I've found on the internet.
I encourage my viewers to add their own insight and definitions in the comments portion.
I encourage my viewers to add their own insight and definitions in the comments portion.
Here's what we're dealing with:
GRIEF
–noun
1. keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
2. a cause or occasion of keen distress or sorrow.
GRIEF
1. A profound mental anguish that one feels when one loses a loved one. Often accompanied with feelings of sorrow, regret, anger, guilt, and feeling very lonely.
2. An annoyance, frustration or difficulty.
2. An annoyance, frustration or difficulty.
"Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates."
Examples given by site:
1. In his state of grief over losing the love of his life, Hank turned to liquor to ease his sorrows.
2."I swear, you give me nothing but grief over the way I clean the house!" Lucy said to her mother-in-law.
1. In his state of grief over losing the love of his life, Hank turned to liquor to ease his sorrows.
2."I swear, you give me nothing but grief over the way I clean the house!" Lucy said to her mother-in-law.
COMPLICATED GRIEF
"Losing a loved one is one of the most distressing and, unfortunately, common experiences people face. Most people experiencing normal grief and bereavement endure a period of sorrow, numbness, and even guilt and anger, followed by a gradual fading of these feelings as they accept their loss and move forward.
For some people, though, this normal grief reaction becomes much more complicated, painful and debilitating, or what's called complicated grief. In complicated grief, painful emotions are so long lasting and severe that you have trouble accepting the death and resuming your own life.
Treatment is available to help people with complicated grief come to terms with their loss and reclaim a sense of joy and peace."
... more of this somber definition @ MayoClinic.com
TEENAGE GRIEF
"Each year thousands of teenagers experience the death of someone they love. When a parent, sibling, friend or relative dies, teens feel the overwhelming loss of someone who helped shape their fragile self-identities. And these feelings about the death become a part of their lives forever."
...more of this mostly true, but slightly offensive definition at Hospicenet.org"Each year thousands of teenagers experience the death of someone they love. When a parent, sibling, friend or relative dies, teens feel the overwhelming loss of someone who helped shape their fragile self-identities. And these feelings about the death become a part of their lives forever."
Grief: sucks.
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