As I was walking on the beach the other day, I got to thinking. It seems so odd that as more and more research emerges about grief, cultural support for people who are grieving seems to be at an all time low. Grief wasn’t studied much before Elisabeth Kübler-Ross proposed the 5 stages of grief [...]
Physicians over prescribing drugs?
Medication gets in the way of grief recovery. Grief is what heals us following a loss. If we avoid the grief, we can’t heal and we prolong the pain. The fastest and most complete way through grief is to experience it as fully and completely as we can. That’s not to say you don’t need a break from time to time, but large amounts of addictive drugs or alcohol just don’t help.
