Mental Health Resource
Our goal is to bring people together around the issues of addictions by providing concise, up-to-date information and a meeting place for patients, their friends and families, and professionals who offer pathways to recovery. www.psyweb.com
Participate in a Research Study
If you have experienced the death of a loved one in the past ten years and are over eighteen years old, we invite you to participate in a brief online study of the ways that individuals make sense of and find meaning in loss. All participants will be entered in a raffle to win one of two $50 gift certificates to Amazon.com.
Your participation will contribute to a better understanding of grief and loss. The researchers, Dr. Brian Vandenberg, and Rachel Hibberd, are most grateful for your time and help in completing the study. If you have any questions, please e-mail rhibberd@umsl.edu. The study has been approved by the Institutional Review board of the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Click here to participate:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2DTKDZ9
Book Corner
Rays of Hope in Times of Loss: Courage and Comfort for Grieving Hearts [Hardcover]
Are you, or someone you know, grieving a significant loss? Rays of Hope in Times of Loss offers soothing guidance to help you discover the answer to many questions. It is filled with powerful therapeutic narrative, original poems, and photographs that reflect the different aspects of the emotional excursion through grief. In our fast-paced lifestyles of today, many people face loss with little guidance and insufficient time to genuinely recover. This book helps people receive beauty, wisdom, and meaningful answers about loss as they move through the maze of grief, without requiring long hours of study and heavy research. Better than a sympathy card or flowers, show how much you care by giving a copy as a gift to others or to yourself.
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When Someone You Love Dies
Death. Just the mere mention of this word makes my skin crawl for it is one subject that no one ever wants to talk about. Regardless of how many times you have been faced with the loss of someone close to you, you never get used to it; just the thought of it provokes images of something dark, cold and scary.
It is one subject that many people shy away from. Many have revealed that there is a fear that if they talk about it, it just might happen to them or someone close to them so they avoid the subject like the plague.
But, by not talking about it, does that prevent it from happening? For the life in me, I wish it did. Like it or not, it is something we must all face at one time or another as death occurs in all families.
To say we all must face it at one time or another does not mean that we must accept it or become comfortable with it as a natural part of our lives. It is not natural, and no matter how many times we are confronted with it, it often sends most of us into a tumultuous whirlwind of emotions and feelings that it’s a wonder we recover. Or do we really recover?
If it were a natural occurrence in life, then facing it any other time after the first time would or should not affect us, right?
But, oh how it does affect us—in ways unrecognizable or unimaginable to our psyche. Our changed behavior or attitude to it touching our lives is our tell-all sign, especially when we bury it and pretend it didn’t happen.
Copyright © 2002 Vanessa A. Johnson. All rights reserved.
Author's Website: http://www.webspawner.com/users/veejay/
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