During life you can have different experiences but one that nobody wants to live is the death of a loved one. The reality is that it is an aspect that can happen to anyone and although it is not desired, the correct thing is to know how to face this type of situation. In that tenor, The symptoms of grief are not only manifested on an emotional level but there are also some physical ones.
With the above in mind, one of your activities as a doctor is to guide your patients. Your profession is one of the best valued in society and it is something you should take advantage of. Sometimes a simple talk is enough to get your recovery.
On the other hand, the funeral service company Gayosso Group offers some tips that are useful to deal with this type of problem and identify the physical symptoms that manifest during grief.
One of the serious consequences of the current pandemic is that many have lost a loved one, or have lost jobs, projects, relationships or assets. Perhaps this series of events has brought people to a point where they have not yet been able to shape the situation. They receive, feel and follow, which is why they have not given themselves the time to work on this stage of their lives and as a consequence their body begins to somatize what they have not attended to. So let us try to understand the implications of this.
What is somatize?
To somatize is to convert a psychic disorder into an organic or functional symptom. It can be a constant headache, shoulder pain, welts on the skin and even spots that weren’t there before.
How does the body experience a grieving experience?
It seems that the only thing that is affected in a grieving process is the mind, the thoughts and feelings. It is rarely believed that the body is also affected.
How could these conditions be detected in the body?
Detecting that feeling of an empty stomach, tightness in the chest, hypersensitivity to noise, excessive tiredness, lack of appetite, a feeling of suffocation, visual or auditory hallucinations, nightmares or weakness, among others.
It is important to realize that the body is demanding more attention. This means that we cannot postpone paying attention to these sensations and feelings any longer.
Perhaps it is scary to work on that process because the feeling is very sad and disconsolate. For this reason, it is important to remember that the only way to heal a grieving process is to go through it.
It is necessary to approach a professional if you do not know how to start this process, it will surely help make sense of the accumulation of emotions and thoughts that go through your head.
“On the other hand, some specialists suggest writing on a sheet of paper, how you feel today… After everything you have experienced, that will help shape what is going through your mind and in that sense you will be able to follow up on it since it is not the same to think about it than to see it embodied. In this last way, ideas are better aligned and it is much easier to know where to start”, comments the psychologist Víctor Hugo Bolaños, collaborator of the Thanatology program at Grupo Gayosso, “Another recommendation is to go out and exercise, take the opportunity to walk , oxygenate the brain, that can bring a feeling of freshness to life”.