One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.
In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.
There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.
In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.
Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.
The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.
But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.
I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.
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