From pain to healing: Navigating complicated grief and trauma

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[antithesiscoaching]

This is the 1st time I've heard my experience explained competently. I've been to many therapist over the past 7 years and my grief was dismissed, minimized and ignored.

[Grumpyrome]

My only child was murdered at 17 (shot in the back 2x) while looking at a car he was considering on buying. It will be 20yrs this year and it still seems like yesterday. I now suffer from PTSD, depression, recently diagnosed AADHD. I was told my grief was complicated. Thank you for breaking it down. I had my family listen to you.

[worldgirl]

My sister died leaving behind an 8 year old and an 11 year old. A friend was trying to comfort my 11 year old nephew and told him God needed her in heaven. I saw the look on his face and read exactly how he felt so i said it for him. How could God possibly need our mother more than we do. He looked at me and i knew he understood that i realised what he felt and it ooened up conversation for us.

[lifeofreilly]

This is so helpful and healing. It really helps in not only understanding myself in not fully dealing with the sudden loss of my Father last year in July. I emerged myself fully with work as a deterrent. This helps me understand his wife who was left behind as well. The anniversary date is a week away and I am just beginning to come out of my 'fog'. It's so embarrassing to admit that it's taken so long to address my feelings that I have shoved down so deeply--telling everyone around me that I'm okay, when in truth, I have been silently hurting and acting strong for nearly a year. Thank you for this, you are a light that has shown itself to heal fully moving forward.❤️

[Cosmogirl]

Dr Snipes you are an amazing person. You have acknowledged me more than anyone in my life which is full of loss from a very young age. Thank you for all you do here.

[beccikezis]

Thank you so much Dr Snipes.... you speak in such an understandable manner to people which makes your infirmation that much better. You're helping me understand so much.

[sharonjohnston]

Thank you for everything you do for people, I'm learning about how to grieve, lost, all areas of my life from childhood to now I am 51, trauma body, deaf, homes, childhood, and long term of ctpsd . Again Thank you. Sharon Johnston (JOYFUL TEARS)

[Tapahtumahorisontti]

I've had MADD for 8 years and a significant factor in its development was a particularly painful break-up. To this day, even thinking about this person causes me so much pain. My therapist said that my symptoms match that of complicated grief and elaborated that it's possible to experience compl. grief even though the triggering event wasn't a death of a loved one, but rather a more figurative death where someone has left my life.

Even though I think that, overall, death can be much more traumatic, my therapist said there are some ways in which destruction of a personal bond through a break-up or growing apart can be more crippling in terms of closure - for one, it's easier to relapse into bargaining when that person is alive and when there's a hypothetical chance for a reconciliation, whereas death is more final. It can also be a cause of serious damage to self-worth. When someone suddenly dies, you might take comfort in the knowledge that at least they thought you were worthy of their time, love and attention, but when someone leaves you, it's because they've made a voluntary choice to go on living their lives without you. That can cause all kinds of feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. It makes you question whether you are lovable in the first place, whether you are somehow deficient.

Most resources on compl. grief deal with death, understandably enough. There doesn't seem to be that much material available on complicated grief over someone who's still alive.

[floweressence]

I lost one of my sons, and he is 33 years old. He overdosed. I'm numb. I pray God will hold me together. I want to be strong.

[llkellenba]

Why is a place to potentially stay stuck - especially with complicated family relationship patterns of estrangement, addiction, cult like tribal exclusion which result in losses that were not anticipated. Not necessarily always a physical death but the “you are dead to me” group exclusion/cutoff feels like multiple losses. The past, present and future all threatened. Illusions held of support and belonging must also be relinquished and grieved. The video applies to dealing with deaths but there are so many losses which also must be accepted and survived. Thank you for shedding light on and validation around grief reactions.

[josephroberts]

I really love your long form lectures and I'm using them to supplement a Loss, Grief, and Bereavement class I'm taking for my masters degree.

[beckybennett]

Thank you for sharing this information & making it available at our fingertips! I've been in such grief . I can't barely get out bed. Very difficult to get to a bereavement group when you can't even get dressed and get out of the house . Video helped me understand what, I'm going through is perfectly normal. I was mentally beating myself up for not being able to get myself together and get on with my life.

[patrickhanson]

Tough look at loss on many levels, and as always Doctor you cover so many bases from a basic loss to complicated greif yes, from "basic" to "trauma". Your careful science is greatly appreaciated.

[crissieroserose]

i am grieving for some one who is still alive,

[hwy]

my doctor new right away that I had complicated grief. I have ptsd also but she put me on Welbutrin for it and it has worked.I lost 2 children.

[oilselevated]

2019 husband confirmed pancreatic inoperable cancer, 2020 sold our home and moved(after 30 years), kids left, 2021 husband told us the wonderful news, that he’s been involved with a young and dumb gold digger for over 2 years!!! (Of course hidden away in another city, where he “kept” our boat…2022 his transactionship crumbles, his cancer spread and he’s really sick now and after 6 months of torture for me, realizing the next level deception, lies, cheating, and abuse, he now wants his family back, wants to make amends. I still have compassion but it’s going to be a lot easier for me. So sad that a person would throw away a great family on his way out like this.

[sophiabright]

So much rich insight. Thank you. Glad I found your channel! <3

[erntdpq]

This is very helpful and I am sharing it with some people that I think would also benefit from it.

Thanks so much!!!
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[bonniebikowski]

Dear beautiful souls.
I just lost my little baby boy Saturday 3-26-22.
I am in unbearable heartache pain to the very core of my soul!😢😭😭💔 Please pray🙏 sending love and light from my heart to yours❤🙌🌈💜

[chilloften]

It builds up for sure, pile it on life!