If someone close to you has passed away, how do you deal with grieving and getting over the loss?

Never happened to me before.

I've never experienced that. The closest person to me who has passed away was a friend from school, but not a parent or sibling.

It's awful for me but personally I deal with situations like that by pretending like everything is still fine and nothing happened, because if I accept the sadness into my life I'll just breakdown. This'll probably come back to bite me in the ass later but oh well nn

I'm kind of the same way. I thought I was going to be okay when my aunt passed a few years back, but when I got to the actual funeral and was about to read the obituary, I had to back out and have my cousin do it because I got very emotional.

I've had 2 close people die. I either react by pretending everything is fine (which like that member says definitely bites you in the ass later) or I close myself off to everyone. I avoid sad situations and hospitals, or funerals and that kind of stuff. Might be why I have commitment issues too

It depends... Ma dad was sick for almost 20 years... E got worse and worse with time... So u grieved throughout the years before he actually died... When he did, I had a long loud crying but after that I felt better . It's still hard of course but I was ready and he was ready, and I was the last to see him.

Spend it with family.

I've only had my Grandpa die but that was 7 years ago so I just cried basically. I don't know how i'll react if anyone close to me dies today. It's one of my biggest fears. Like i'd rather die over them. That's kinda selfish tho

Just let it out.

You just have to learn to accept that it's part of life and only think about the positives of that person's life. In the end, no one wants you to be sad for them. Rejoice that their time came and move on.

I mean, I'm still not over the death of my first dog, and it's been four years. I haven't lost any person particularly close to me yet but I imagine I won't handle it well.

listening to music helps a lot, whenever i am in a bad mood i turn on spotify and in minutes i feel better

It's been a long time since I've experienced this so I'm not sure how I would cope. I had a really bad dream my husband was killed and in the dream I experienced the first few months after, and it was hard. I woke up very suddenly and hugged him a little harder.

When my grandpa died in May, i cried a little at the funeral, but I wasn't that close to him in recent years because he moved away when I was like 8 and only came back once in a while until he stayed in my house for a few months last year.

When my grandma had brain surgery in 2012, I broke down sobbing in the hospital because I really thought she was going to die, but she made a full recovery and is doing great now
If she dies in my lifetime, I think i'll just kill myself tbh, because I can't imagine a world without her. There's no one on Earth I love more than her.

When my dog passed away I locked myself in room and cried myself to sleep. (Was 15 at the time) I was so heartbroken. No one close to me has passed away. I honestly don't know what I'll do.

I've never experienced this and just I'm very scared it will eventually

I'm a mess for like a few months. Crying on the bus, or at Tesco whilst picking up a food that I know they liked or in Starbucks by the window. And then one day I'll listen to an uplifiting song and start moving forwards

I completely understand this. I had to put down my cat last year and I was a bit devastated for at least a week.

It's better not to