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And the accumulation of this emotional grief has led many to experience grief debt.
But how can we repay this debt, given that the pandemics harms continue to pile on?
Kahina A. Louis, PsyD
Is this more complicated than processing a singular trauma?
They can surface in your thoughts and actions without you even realizing it.
My brother died of COVID-19, and its been hard for me.
Dorothy Holinger, Ph.D., is a Harvard Medical School psychologist and the author of The Anatomy of Grief.
I felt a combination of grief and anger that I had to let out, he says.
Anotherhelpful technique can be journalingand writing out your emotionsjust writing down what comes up for you.
The key, he says, is doingsomething.
Otherwise your emotionsfrom one traumatic event or multiplemay get buried inside.
Many of us are not okay, and mental health experts want you to get comfortable acknowledging it.
I have a friend who got COVID-19, also lost his job, and is very isolated at home.
So I make it a point to call him every day, he says.
My brothers death was very difficult for me, he says.
One morning, I picked up the phone, called a friend, and said, Im really overwhelmed.
Dorothy Holinger, Ph.D., is a Harvard Medical School psychologist and the author of The Anatomy of Grief.
Just two minutes into talking with her, I started to feel a little better and less alone.
Its important to express our grief.
It increases your understanding of anxiety, depression, and grief.
And that understanding is going to make us more connected to each other.
Can grief debt be repaid?
This was a step toward healing that we needed on a national level, she says.
We needed the acknowledgment from our countrys leaders of what we have experienced and are going through.
Individually acknowledging grief is important, and its also important that it is acknowledged by othersparticularly leaders.
Individually acknowledging grief is important, and its also important that it is acknowledged by othersparticularly leaders.
I had a patient who started seeing me after his mother died.
We spent our sessions working through that grief and then one day he came in feeling sick.
Grief can come back in these ways.
In fact, Dr. Holinger says recovering from whats happening now requires attention in the presentandin the future.
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