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Anticipatory Grief and Mourning

Extended illness, disability, severe accidental injury, a terminal diagnosis, or the aging and decline of an elderly family member can produce anticipatory grief. We are reacting and continually adapting not only to an expected loss, but to all the losses -- past, present, and future -- we encounter in that experience. These cumulative losses can shatter our assumptive world, cause us great confusion and challenge our most basic spiritual and philosophical beliefs. The resulting grief can affect us physically, emotionally, cognitively, socially and spiritually. Here we will comfort and support one another as we identify, confront and mourn these many losses.

239 topics in this forum

  1. My Dad Passed

    By CherylMc,
    • 6 replies
    • 1.4k views

  2. Anticipatory grief is consuming me

    By CherylMc,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.3k views

  3. Rejecting help

    By scba,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.3k views

  4. I feel so quilty

    By Rylee,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.2k views

  5. The Holidays are really causing more grief :'(

    By Rylee,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.2k views

  6. Loosing my Mom / Best Friend to terminal Brain Cancer

    By LoriVeli,   
    • 3 replies
    • 989 views

  7. I'm so worried about my daughter

    By Rylee,
    • 6 replies
    • 1.5k views

  8. Caring for my terminally ill husband at home

    By Nicho,   
    • 3 replies
    • 1.3k views

  9. Writing thank you cards

    By ElizabethH77,
    • 10 replies
    • 1.1k views

  10. Will I ever stop crying? :0(

    Topic was moved to forum Loss of a Parent or Grandparent

  11. Neighbor Friend dying of cancer

    By kayc,
    • 6 replies
    • 1.2k views

  12. Having a rough night

    By seachelle,
    • 0 replies
    • 739 views

  13. Kind of had a bad couple of days

    Topic was moved to forum Loss of a Parent or Grandparent

  14. Caretaker (again) and update

    Topic was moved to forum Loss in Young Adulthood

  15. young adult grievers

    Topic was moved to forum Loss in Young Adulthood

  16. I feel so stupid. I don't know what the heck is wrong with me :(

    By Rylee,
    • 3 replies
    • 986 views

  17. It's been awhile since being here

    By Rylee,
    • 11 replies
    • 800 views

  18. My Mother Passed Today

    By Rylee,
    • 16 replies
    • 1.3k views

  19. New - Anticipatory Grief of Parent's Death

    By T2Logan,
    • 19 replies
    • 2.2k views

  20. And here we go again

    By clk,
    • 3 replies
    • 985 views

  21. My mom passed today

    By T2Logan,
    • 4 replies
    • 858 views

  22. It's Now Imminent

    By T2Logan,
    • 2 replies
    • 801 views

  23. I'm new here. Losing my mother

    By Rylee,
    • 22 replies
    • 1.2k views

  24. Prolonged Anticipatory Grief

    By EMarie,
    • 1 reply
    • 906 views

  25. Well...I guess I belong here too....

    By Harleyquinn,
    • 7 replies
    • 1.3k views
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