Dr Nelia Drenth, a palliative care social worker, expounds why coping with loss is about getting through the pain and not over it. Loss almost always indicates suffering of some kind. The suffering presents itself in emotions, such as sadness, searching, yearning, anger, depression, and despair. It affects how we behave towards ourselves and towards others and it often leads to spiritual insecurity when we fail to understand the reason behind the loss. To top it all, our bodies react physically to this loss in the form of headaches, painful muscles, and fatigue. As difficult as it is to believe, this is normal…
