Anticipatory grief – when loss begins before someone dies
Grief does not always begin after death. Sometimes it starts earlier – during illness, waiting, caregiving and slowly facing the reality that someone’s life is changing.
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Grief does not always begin after death. Sometimes it starts earlier – during illness, waiting, caregiving and slowly facing the reality that someone’s life is changing.
After a loss, many people ask themselves: is this taking too long? Grief has no single timeline and no single right way of unfolding. This article helps explain what may be natural in grief and when support may be helpful.