How to cope with grief during the holidays and a pandemic
The overwhelming amount of loss we've experienced during this pandemic is in stark contrast to what is supposedly the happiest time of the year.
Nine months to a year into the crisis, depending on where you live, nearly 2 million people around the world have died from Covid-19. And that's in addition to the thousands more people who died from deaths of despair, disease, accidents and other causes this year.
Grief, of course, is an experience that people encounter all the time -- but this year there are pandemic-related factors that compound that normal process.
"Many of the deaths involve people dying very quickly or dying without their loved ones present. Even after the loss, there is not the ability to have the kind of support we usually have," said clinical psychologist Therese Rando, the clinical director of The Institute for the Study and Treatment of Loss in Rhode Island. "We're not just dealing with loss, but we're dealing with trauma as well."
And since the holidays are a time when we expect to feel love and togetherness among family, "the holidays are going to underscore the loss," Rando, author of "How to Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies" and other books on grief, said. "So just by definition, the loss of a loved one is going to be taking out one of the elements that's supposed to make the holidays so good."
Grief doesn't just go away, and if you don't want to celebrate the holidays, you don't have to. If you want to or are compromising with family but want to minimize the pain, however, here's some advice that could help make the holidays both bearable and enjoyable.
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