He could not live long, but during the years that he was suffering from his disease, he comprehended that “failure and loss visit us all”, life is not easy and it might seems to be unfair, but we have the right to choose from disheartened or encouraged. One’s attitude is very important when encountering difficulties. In addition, Simmons’s father once stated that “we need a hard road, not a smooth one”, a hard road makes us reflect and see clearer of who we really are. Life is a hard road, people go through loss to reflect and finally to defeat. When people go though the loss, “it hurts terribly, but it heals, and sometimes like a broken bone where it knits, it is stronger”.
Even though the mother and the children are the main focus of this picture, you notice the sadness and worry on the mothers face first while her children’s heads are turned away from the camera. The silence created by the children’s bodies and faces help with the feeling of despair and worry in the picture. During the Great Depression many people suffered from poverty. Although we do not hear about poverty issues to this extent anymore, it still continues to happen around us. Many people suffer from loss of a job or traumatic experiences in their life.
Steven Herrick’s free verse novel “By the River” displays the struggles of grief and loss that the characters endure as well as some effective coping mechanism they utilise. Various characters such as the protagonist, Harry and his father display the issues of grief and loss and clearly demonstrate ways in which they cope with it. Harry and his father cope through the death of their mother and wife in different ways. The protagonist has to deal with the loss of his close friend, Linda which turns out to be a great struggle but he manages to survive it. Loss can be felt through death as well as someone leaving your life.
This book reveals what a family has to go through after a tragedy such as the one in the book happens to them. The author also writes how victims family's pain is not too different that of the perpetrator's family. The girls in her school start making her feel worst than she already feels
Sociologically, grieving within families is not an easy task. Each family member reacts to death differently and forces family members to make changes in their lives in order to adjust to life without this family member. Raney and Charles had a hard time accepting the suicide of Uncle Nate. When Charles voiced his opinion that Uncle Nate was clearly depressed, obsessive-compulsive, and crippled from his life experiences, thus needing psychological help in order to heal, Raney took it as an insult. In Raney’s mind, Charles was placing blame on her, her family, and specifically, her mother who spent most of her time taking care of Uncle Nate.
He watched his mother change everyday and go through stages of her depression. He was so afraid that his mother would die and he felt responsible for his mothers illness. His mother always talked about death and as if it were her last day so he thought that she would die soon. Gates developed certain “ rituals” to help his mother. The reader can conclude that Gates really loved his mother and admired her.
Somebody loses a child, a sibling, a friend. Each person feels the pain and no one’s grief is worse than another. To survive such a hardship the family needs to stick together, helping each other and listen to one another. While it is hard to be strong during such a difficult time, ignoring the hurt and pain of those in need can cause other consequences down the
I have also learned that different people respond differently to different situations. Some handle situations well, some do not. I’ve also learned that suicide really doesn’t help anything it makes things worse because it can have a so called “domino effect” where if one person commits suicide someone else won’t be able to stand the guilt and would commit it themselves and so on and so forth. I recommend anyone who has lost a loved one, someone close to them or even maybe a pet, and are looking for advice, to read this book. It is full of helpful tips and suggestions for dealing with grief and
The individual can become irritable at a moments notice. Many people suffer from depression which can be caused by the physical and cognitive changes that they have experienced. Some people can become self-centred and not recognize other people’s point of view and can become very demanding which can cause resentment. Often people with acquired brain injury do not like to be left alone for any amount of time. Explain the concepts of loss in relation to acquired brain injury for individuals and carers The care that is given to an individual with an acquired brain injury is crucial.
Everyone knows that dealing with grief after a loss in one of the most difficult things to experience in life that we all have to face eventually. So the fact that we try to avoid the idea at all costs, the first thing we think of when we hear “grief” is death. But in reality we experience different kinds of loss in life that you can grieve about just as much as the death of someone, and its up to you to turn it into a positive outcome no matter what the loss might be. Traumatic losses are always unbearably negative to our emotional state of mind at first, but we all have the willpower to get something positive out of the experience rather then letting it haunt you the rest of your life. Anyone can take the negative energy from a loss and express it in a positive manner, just like the world famous surfer, Bethany Hamilton, does after getting her arm bitten off by a shark when she was 13 years old just doing what she does everyday.