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Grief
Published in Lisa Zammit, Georgeanne Schopp, Relational Care, 2022
Lisa Zammit, Georgeanne Schopp
Families experience loss with physical symptoms of sleep disturbance, appetite changes, and general malaise. There may be increased risk of new onset disease or exacerbation of chronic disease states. The stress generated by loss causes a physical response. Researchers have shown that Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is caused by an impaired ability to process and regulate emotions (Khalid, et al., 2018). Broken heart syndrome is a common phenomenon with spouses dying within days or months of each other.
The Role of Humor, Music, and the Arts
Published in Gerry R. Cox, Neil Thompson, Death and Dying, 2020
A metaphorical broken heart does not necessarily lead to complicated grief, of course, but it is clearly a factor. Being heartbroken can lead to grief management efforts that are counterproductive, such as drinking to excess, angry or even violent outbursts, self-harm, depression, and psychotic episodes. They are counterproductive, in the sense that they obstruct the healing process and create additional problems and pressures.
Psychiatry (nervous disorders)
Published in David Sales, Medical IELTS, 2020
Patients often find it difficult to express their emotions to a doctor and may describe the sensation of feeling tired all the time as having no energy, being exhausted or knackered, of having legs like lead if they have no energy or having bags under their eyes if they think they look tired due to insomnia (difficulty sleeping). A depressed mood may be described as feeling low, down, down in the dumps, grumpy, moody, blue, fed up or browned off. Some patients will describe having a heavy or broken heart, especially if they are distressed by unrequited love.
How do romantic breakups affect depression among American college students? The role of sexual conservativeness
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2022
Romantic relationships are one of the major parts of life, which can greatly influence an individual’s mental health. This can be especially true for young adults, such as college students.1 One of the largest relationship stressors can occur from breakups. Although romantic breakup may be linked to positive outcomes for some emerging adults, such as personal growth,2 or positive life change,3 its negative outcomes, however, are also supported by strong empirical evidence. Romantic dissolutions have been found to be one of the most important predictors of young people’s mental health status, including depression,4,5 anxiety,6,7 feeling of rejection and betrayal.8 Particular physical health symptoms, such as “broken heart syndrome” (i.e. physical pain in chest or heart after losing someone),9 and immune dysfunction can occur after a breakup.8,10,11 For some young adults, breakup distress can even persist for a longer time and psychological regulation and recovery is more difficult for them to retain.12
The Experience of Mothers from the Israeli Jewish Ultra-Orthodox Sector after Disclosure of Their Child’s Sexual Abuse as Manifested in Drawings and Narratives
Published in Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2022
Aiala Szyfer Lipinsky, Limor Goldner
Other mothers reflected on their recovery and underscored their continuous agony and sadness, although this was accompanied by gains in terms of strengthening their faith, greater family cohesion and the enhancement of personal resources after the disclosure. They said: First, I drew a big heart. The big heart is love, confidence, and resilience, both for my child and me, the love that I give to others and that others provide me. I also give thanks to God because I gained strength and self-confidence (A, age 30)I drew a heart because I feel the abuse is inside me. For me, we [the parents] have not achieved closure, the abuse is always present, in our souls […] I will not draw a fracture because today it is not a fracture, as in the beginning, today I feel that there is still a wound, not a fracture, and I have no doubt it will stay there forever, but it is not a critical fracture, I will draw a fracture. Because I decided to draw another heart that shows what I feel today.” (L, age 37)I am in a good place today, but my pain will remain forever. I have a very broken heart, a very broken one full of fear, pain and the sadness. I also have my strength and the conviction that my kids have coped with the abuse, but I will always have that broken heart (O, age 44).
Death and dying: elderly persons’ experiences of grief over the loss of family members
Published in South African Family Practice, 2018
Participants also experienced anxiety about impending death, particularly when multiple deaths took place and where they had to anxiously observe their family members’ condition deteriorating. Death anxiety is a multifaceted construct that is difficult to define, but it has been conceptualised to include fear of death of others, and fear of dying, and it may manifest in avoidance or denial.19 Often participants protected the dying and other family members from sorrow by hiding their tears. According to Ekore and Lanre-Abass3 even the dying person goes through periods of fear and grief once the inevitability of death becomes apparent. Most people who lose a family member experience a wide variety of psychological symptoms, such as sadness, anxiety and anger, and also physical pain, reflected by phrases such as having ‘a broken heart’,19 as was observed in this study.