how do you cope with grief and loss?

Really sorry for your loss its wrenching, you just have to remember all you shared with him/her and take each day as it comes.It will get easier, There is no "easy" route out but time really is a great healer. (hate that saying but it is true)

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I'm sorry you're having such an unhappy time. All I can say is it takes time, and I found that it helped to be busy, but I allowed myself private time and space for a good wallow. I'm a fan of letting this stuff surface and getting out of my system, as I find surpressing how I feel makes me ill, and I'll only have to deal with it at a later date anyway. You may find talking to friends helps, or maybe a counsellor if you start to feel seriously down or these if feelings don't lessen as you feel they should. I hope you start to feel better soon and are able to look back and appreciate your time with your companion without the hurt of loss. Best wishes.

well i had the same loss in 1997 i lost my dog after 13 years. i was so upset i almost hung myself in our bathroom. if it had not been for my mother coming back home.

well 13 years later, i am totally alone:( i just lost my mother in march of 2009. lost my dad in 2003. and now i live in an empty apartment.

how do i deal with it? not very well. i cry a lot. i know its wrong for anyone to see a grown man cry, but when i visit her in the cemetery i just explode in tears the moment i see the headstone.

i hope that seeing a psychiatristand going to group therapy will help me get over my grief. the medication i take is supposed to help [paxil, wellbutrin] but it iisn't doing much for me. i still feel awful:(

Oh sweety.

I'm so sorry you've lost your beloved friend, but as time passes the grief starts to ease.

You won't always feel like this, so talk to your family, friends and people about how you feel, and you'll be right..Ok.