Ambiguous lossSearchFamilies of missing people are often understood as inhabiting a particular space of ambiguity, captured in the phrase 'living in limbo' (Holmes, 2008). To explore this uncertain ground, we interviewed 25 family members to consider how human absence is acted upon and not just...
Carnes felt the need to be with her. She thought she could go to her mom, put her head in her lap, find comfort. But dementia was changing her mother, and Carnes experienced another kind of ambiguous loss when her mother stopped looking up and recognizing her. Or when she blurted ...
Grieving the living is not a process that is defined. Each person must deal with these emotions in their own way, much like when someone loses a loved one. Sometimes friends and family do not understand what a caregiver is going through during this process because most people associate grief ...
Think of grief as a language. Languages start they don’t end. The goal of a language is not to finish but to become fluent and to connect with people. Grief is humanities official language with multiple dialects. Tangible grief death where everyone knows. Ambiguous grief is the death of...
What if I do this and I am stuck having to live with a BIG mistake? Don’t get me wrong, I believe that big decisions should be given a good amount of thought and planning. But there is a way that can make the decision-making process less ambiguous… ...
s ones such astheseJesus tells to follow as he goes about remaking the world – bringing light all throughout the land. Which should give us hope as we think about this VUCA, volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous world in which we live. Because it is people like us who Christstill...
I argue that a possible confound arises from an asymmetry between physical state/process questions and mental state/process questions, specifically that the later tended to include social relationships. The question structure took the form, “Now that subjectSis dead, canSstill do activityAwith person...
Even after controlling for several correlates of PGD, higher PGD symptom severity was associated with ambiguous loss, more PTSD symptoms and low perceived social support. Conclusions These results show a higher prolonged grief symptom severity after the loss of a significant other due to disappearance...
The grief or “shock” period experienced by these parents concerned the gender identity assigned to the child’s birth and the family relationships built around it, the change of their first name and affectionate nicknames associated with the former identity, losing the shared gendered relationship ...