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Remembering a Friend Who Passed Away in Quotes

• ‘A true friend is never truly gone.
• ‘The bond between friends is beyond the mortal world.
• ‘They say friends are the family we choose.
• ‘Friendship transcends death.
• ‘Saying goodbye isn’t for us.

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What is a quote about losing a good friend?

Short Quotes About a Friend’s Death – A short quote expresses your sentiments and appropriately complements a condolence card. Also, add a short quote on a framed photo of your friend to help you remember and be inspired by their life. Consider the following short quotes

1. “My friend lived a wonderfully joyful life, therefore let us celebrate that life rather than lament his death.”
2. “The death of a friend is a big loss for everyone who knew and loved her. I lament her friendship.”
3. “It’s difficult to walk the rest of the route of friendship alone.”
4. “There is nothing more memorable than the sound of a friend’s laughter. May it muffle the sound of my sobs.”
5. “In spirit, he is a buddy. Let us remember you as you once were.”
6. “Friendship is a link that does not deteriorate in death, but rather strengthens for those who remember.”
7. “Friends who loved you in life will treasure you in death.”
8. “Losing a buddy is like losing a sister you never had. A catastrophic event that will alter your life for the rest of your life.”
9. “Your companionship has enriched my life. Dear friend, may you find blessings in the next world.”
10. “It is a tragedy when a best friend dies too young, and what would have been worse is never meeting them. I am grateful to have had as a friend in life and will continue to be their friend in death, honoring them in whatever I do.”

What is the pain of losing a best friend?

Coping with the Loss of a Friendship

• Friendship breakups can feel as painful as the loss of love relationships.
• When we can accept that everyone has different expectations and needs for friendship, we cope better.
• Cultivating a non-judging attitude toward yourself and others can help you recover.

Source: Photo by Milada Vigerova at Unsplash A client, whom I’ll call Sarah, felt devastated over the loss of a meaningful : “We were friends for 28 years. Through the births of our children, holidays, deaths, everything. Now she won’t speak to me. I feel abandoned.” Losing a close friend can feel as painful as losing a love relationship.

1. You might suffer physical symptoms like, gastrointestinal pain, and chest tightness.
2. It can feel like a literal heartache (Eisenberger, N.I.2012).
3. You might also feel psychological symptoms of that include racing heart, rumination, worry, and numbness.
4. The loss of a close friend can spiral us into with feelings of worthlessness, hopelessness, and helplessness.

If we believe we have enough friends to meet our needs, we cope with better. The loss of a friend shakes that belief and rocks our emotional foundation (King, A.R. et al., 2016). Friends can promote better health and longer life and even improve our financial picture.

An absence of friends can be harmful to our physical and mental health over time. An inability to seek and maintain friendships is associated with depression and other mental disorders (Brent, L.J. et al., 2014). I asked Sarah what led to this rupture of her friendship with the person I’ll call Monica.

“She told me she was tired of having to cheer me up. Our business took a huge hit during the pandemic. We had to work crazy hours to keep from collapsing. At the same time, she inherited millions of dollars from her family’s trust fund. She wanted to enjoy life and have fun.

• I needed her encouragement and support.
• She said I was being negative and bringing her down.
• I thought I could trust her.
• Now I feel so hurt and like I wasted all those years helping her through difficult times,” Sarah said.
• It is hard to accept impermanence and loss.
• We want to feel securely attached to those we love.

We don’t want to think about losing anyone. Yet loss is inevitable. Sarah said she thought of Monica as her “forever friend.” It shocked her that Monica would not offer emotional support but instead cut off the friendship during her time of need: “I feel like everything I believed about Monica was wrong.

1. Succulents. These individuals require very little maintenance. They like a lot of light (tell it to me straight) and very little water (don’t talk too much). They grow slowly and steadily, even in harsh environments.
2. Trees. For these people, after the first couple of years of staking the seedling and providing fertilizer and water, they grow stronger, with deeper roots as time goes on. They like to get to know you well in the beginning. Once established, not as much maintenance is required, and the friendship grows deeper with each passing year.
3. Flower gardens. These people require frequent weeding, pruning, fertilizing, and replanting. If too much time passes, the weeds take over, and the flower garden disappears.

If you’re a succulent or a tree, you probably see the flower garden friend as “high maintenance.” For a succulent, too much sentimentality, water, time can feel smothering to their prickly nature. If you’re not spending regular time together, you are not a friend at all to a flower garden.

1. Yet all three types of friendship share the need for love, trust, and respect.
2. Sarah saw herself as more of a tree type.
3. She felt the 28 years of deeply rooted friendship with Monica mattered.
4. Because she had to work more hours to keep her business afloat, she assumed Monica would understand her stress and lack of availability.

Monica seemed to be a flower garden. She needed things to be pretty and nice in her friendships. Monica wanted a lot of time spent enjoying one another’s company. Sarah’s negative emotions weren’t maintaining the good life Monica wanted. One hallmark of mental health is the ability to cope with loss.

1. Loss is normal and inevitable. People will move away, drift away, and pass away. Acceptance of this reality helps us cope better.
2. Loss can feel personal but often isn’t. Friends can fall away during times of change, leaving for college, finding a mate, having a child, changing jobs, moving,, and, We might feel hurt that our friendships end or change, yet it doesn’t mean we’ve failed.
3. Grief and loss can bring us to our knees, yet life continues. Yes, we cry, suffer sleepless nights, feel pain. We can adapt to the loss, reorganize our lives, and find meaning and once more.
4. A non-judgmental attitude helps you recover faster. When we lose a friendship, we might judge ourselves and our friends harshly. Judging amplifies our suffering, feelings of, and disconnection.

Sarah judged herself as “negative and needy.” She saw Monica as “cold and uncaring.” Sarah alternated between blaming herself with comments and blaming Monica with and resentment. I explained to Sarah that feelings happen in moments of time. Momentary feelings cannot describe the full majesty of a human being.

1. Sarah needed something that Monica could not provide, and Monica needed something that Sarah could not give.
2. Sarah need not judge herself or Monica to accept the end of the friendship.
3. In the early days of her hurt and anger, Sarah wanted to get rid of every gift Monica had ever given.
4. Everywhere I look, I see reminders of trips we took together and happier times,” Sarah said.

To see those reminders of happier days only made Sarah sadder about the loss. She needed closure to address her hurt feelings and let go of her friend. I suggested that she write Monica a goodbye letter. In that letter, she shared her heartache about the end of the friendship and her deep disappointment that Monica abandoned her when she most needed support.

1. Sarah also shared her love and for the good times they had shared.
2. One of the hardest things for Sarah to manage was her enduring love for her friend.
3. I still love her.
4. I don’t know what to do with all of this caring, history, worry, and love that I have for her,” she said.
5. I suggested she begin with love and compassion for herself.

If we live long enough, we will all lose friends. It hurts. It helps to hold ourselves in kindness as we pass through the pain. Self-kindness includes:

• Regular sleep
• Nutritious food
• Emotional support
• Exercise
• Relaxation/contemplation/

Over time Sarah found other places to plant her love where it could grow. She found other trees. References Brent, L.J., Chang, S.W., Gariépy, J.F., & Platt, M.L. (2014). The neuroethology of friendship. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1316(1), 1–17.

: Coping with the Loss of a Friendship

What is a short quote about lost friendship?

10. “We all lose friends. We lose them in death, to distance, and over time. But even though they may be lost, hope is not.” -Amy Marie Walz – You are more than your friendships.

What is a painful quote about grief?

Many people are inspired by the wisdom in the words of others – here are quotes by well-known identities, and the not-so-famous, whose thoughts can guide the way we view our own circumstances.

“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” Author unknown “If tears could build a stairway,and memories a lane, I’d walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again.” Author unknown “Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, May looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.” Author unknown “Grief is itself a medicine.” William Cowper “Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” from The Wonder Years “The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief isonly a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” Hillary Stanton Zunin “You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.” Old Chinese proverb “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” From a headstone in Ireland “No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.” C.S Lewis “Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.” Earl Grollman “Nothing that grieves us can be called little; by the external laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.” Mark Twain, ‘Which Was The Dream?’ “There’s a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.” Lou Reed, ‘Magic And Loss’ “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.” Washington Irving “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” Aeschylus “Tears are the silent language of grief.” Voltaire “Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.” Marcel Proust “There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone; his own burden in his own way.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh “Grief is the price we pay for love.” Queen Elizabeth II “Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief.” William Faulkner “Grief changes shape, but it never ends.” Keanu Reeves “If you’ve got to my age, you’ve probably had your heart broken many times. So it’s not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.” Emma Thompson “You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.” Nigella Lawson “Grief is like a moving river, it’s always changing. I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It’s just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.” Michelle Williams “Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.” Alphonse de Lamartine “The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” Marcus Tullius Cicero “Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.” Quintus Ennius “Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death’s perfect punctuation mark is a smile.” Julie Burchill “You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.” Jan Gildwell “As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us. As long as I can I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us.” Sascha “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” Kahlil Gibran “There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rule book that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass – if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it’s okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.” Jodi Picoult “Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow – it is not a permanent rest stop.” Dodinsky “Tears have a wisdom all their own. They come when a person has relaxed enough to let go and to work through his sorrow. They are the natural bleeding of an emotional wound, carrying the poison out of the system. Here lies the road to recovery.” F. Alexander Magoun “When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time – the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes – when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever – there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.” John Irving “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.” William Shakespeare “No farewell words were spoken, no time to say goodbye, you were gone before we knew it, and only God knows why.” Author unknown “I’m gone now, but I’m still very near, death can never separate us. Each time you feel a gentle breeze, it’s my hand caressing your face. Each time the wind blows, it carries my voice whispering your name. When the wind blows your hair ever so slightly, think of it as me pushing a few stray hairs back in place. When you feel a few raindrops fall on your face, it’s me placing soft kisses. At night look up in the sky and see the stars shining so brightly. I’m one of those stars and I’m winking at you and smiling with delight. For never forget, you’re the apple of my eye.” Mary M Green “There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.” Victoria Alexander “You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly – that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.” Anne Lamott “Tears water our growth.” William Shakespeare “Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?” Author unknown “What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.” Jewish proverb “Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.” Eskimo legend “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” Author unknown “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.” Author unknown “Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you’ve lived.” Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” Dr. Seuss “Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.” Author unknown “If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane, I’d walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.” Author unknown “We’ve shared our lives these many years. You’ve held my hand; you’ve held my heart. So many blessings, so few tears – yet for a moment, we must part.” Author unkown “A beautiful colourful rainbow could not exist if it were not for the rain of a grey day – it was born from the very droplets of it.” Author unkown “In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods of tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life.” Nicholas Sparks ‘The Notebook’ “Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face – I know it’s an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.” Nicholas Sparks ‘Message In A Bottle’ “It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer. and everything collapses.” Colette “Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.” Proverb “These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger he will plunge through.” David Nicholls ‘One Day’ “A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.” Anonymous “Love is like standing in wet cement, the longer you stay the harder to leave and you can never leave without leaving your marks behind.” Author unknown “I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every part of my body is broken too.” Chloe Woodward “The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ‘The Golden Legend’ “In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they’d learned to swim” U2 ‘Until The End Of The World “Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Forgiveness is healing, especially forgiving yourself.” Alyson Noel ‘Evermore’ “Of all Sad Words of Tongue or Pen, the Saddest are these, “It Might Have Been.” George Ade ‘More Fables’ “A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.” Grenville Kleiser ‘Dictionary Of Proverbs’ “That song is sweetest, bravest, best, Which plucks the thistle-barb of care From a despondent brother’s breast, And plants a sprig of heart’s-ease there.” Andrew Downing ‘The Sweetest Song’ “I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.” Rita Mae Brown “Grief is what I feel when someone passes away, Grief is what I feel when I am concerned, Grief is what I feel when I have done wrong, Grief is what I feel when some accident happens, Grief is something that all people have gone through.” Brandi Reissig “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die, so let us all be thankful.” Buddhist quote “Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.” Buddhist quote “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” Buddhist quote “May all beings everywhere, Seen and unseen, Dwelling far off or nearby, Being or waiting to become, May all be filled with lasting joy.” Buddhist quote “Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.” Jean Cameron “People touch our lives if only for a moment, And yet we’re not the same from that moment on, The time is not important, The moment is forever.” Fern Bork “Our grief is as individual as our lives.” Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross “We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.” Dean Koontz ‘The Darkest Evening Of The Year’ “People touch our lives if only for a moment, And yet we’re not the same from that moment on, The time is not important, The moment is forever.” Fern Bork “We get no choice. If we love, we grieve.” Thomas Lynch “Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but live in thankfulness that he was.” Hebrew proverb “Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.” Buddhist saying “We need never be afraid of our tears.” Charles Dickens “Life is not the way it is supposed to be. It is the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.” Virginia Satir “The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not close the keyboard and allow the instrument to gather dust. We must seek out other artists of the spirit, new friends who gradually will help us to find the road to life again, who will walk the road with us.” Joshua Loth Liebman “Those things that hurt instruct.” Benjamin Franklin “The fact that something has happened to a million other people diminishes neither grief nor joy.” Author unkown “I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.” Og Mandino “Some people come in your life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.” Mother Teresa “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller “We do not have to rely on memories to recapture the spirit of those we have loved and lost – they live within our souls in some perfect sanctuary which even death cannot destroy.” Nan Witcomb

Why is losing a friend so hard?

Losing a friend: possible feelings – Psychologists believe that the experience of loss is so hard to cope with because it temporarily changes the way our brains and bodies work. Here are some common reactions to the loss of a friend:

Confusion. When faced with a traumatic event like losing a friend, the brain responds to stress by creating new connections between neurons, or by weakening existing ones. This is usually why people feel confused and mentally exhausted – something that has been described as brain fog, Anger. This is a common reaction that sets in when the initial shock wears off. After losing a friend, you may feel angry at them or at anyone you deem responsible (for example, doctors who couldn’t save them, or an employer if it was a work accident). Guilt. Some people develop a feeling of guilt after the loss of a friend. Here we may see reactions like survivor’s guilt, or blaming yourself for all the times you weren’t there to support your friend. You may also feel trapped by constantly thinking about things you should have or shouldn’t have done. Physical pain. Some people also experience loss at physical level, through changes in sleep habits, appetite, or a weakened immune system.

After losing a friend, you may experience one or more of these feelings, at different points in time or as a whirlwind of mixed emotions. Just remember that everyone’s grief process is different. Seek support from others after losing a friend Having said that, there are some losses that could especially complicated to handle. For example, losing a family member may feel different from losing a friend. And the reactions described above may be even more intense or prolonged if you lose a friend to suicide,

Is losing a friend traumatic?

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The death of a friend is a loss that most people face at some point in their lives – often many times. But it is a grief that may not be taken seriously by employers, doctors or others. The so-called hierarchy of grief, a scale used to determine who is considered a more legitimate mourner than others, puts family members at the top.

For this reason, the death of a close friend can feel shunted to the periphery and has been described as a disenfranchised grief, There has not been much research on the impact the death of a friend has on a person, so we set out to address this with our latest study, We discovered that, far from being a trivial loss, the health and well-being of people who lose a close friend has a heavy toll in the four years after that loss.

For our study, published in PLOS ONE, we analysed responses from an Australian household survey of more than 26,000 people. Of the people who completed the survey, over 9,500 had experienced the death of a close friend. Our analysis showed that life satisfaction of the bereaved fell sharply (figure 1) compared with a matched non-bereaved group. Figure 1. Life satisfaction. Author provided In the graph below, the impact on general health is shown comparing the bereaved group with a matched non-bereaved group. You can see the bereaved group tracking clearly lower than the non-bereaved for 24 months, an effect that continues for four years. Figure 2. General health. Author provided Social functioning and mental health are also worse after the death of a friend, which you can see in the final two graphs. Figure 3. Social functioning. Author provided Figure 4. Mental health. Author provided These findings suggest we need to take the death of a close friend more seriously and to change the way we support people who are suffering from such a bereavement. Friends are psychological kin, that is, you may even have a stronger bond with friends than people you are related to by birth or marriage.

Why is the death of a best friend so hard?

Any loss can cause lingering pain, but the loss of a best friend can be particularly difficult to bear. They’ve existed in your life for so long, you can’t imagine any other reality. “Best friends forever,” you might have promised. A world without them might seem completely altered, even impossible to navigate alone.

• Whether your friend died or the two of you no longer talk due to personal differences, you’ve experienced a major loss.
• It’s only normal to feel grief.
• Your grief might be complicated by the fact that society doesn’t always acknowledge the significance of friendships in the way it does romantic relationships or familial bonds.

This may leave you feeling excluded from mourning rituals, or as if other people judge you for being so deeply affected. The seven strategies below can help you navigate your loss, regardless of the circumstances. If you’ve heard of the five stages of grief, you may know denial appears first on that list.

1. But experts now consider these stages an outdated model for looking at grief.
2. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, the psychiatrist who developed them, never intended them to describe grief after a loss.
3. She used them to describe the experiences of people confronting their own terminal illness.
4. While you might feel reassured to know others experience similar feelings, like anger, you might worry you’re doing something wrong when your grief follows its own path.

Denial, for example, can happen throughout the grieving process, not just at the beginning. The important thing to remember is this: People react to loss in different ways. No predetermined process can outline what you’ll experience. Loss stirs up complex emotions, including anger, frustration, sadness, confusion, and regret.

• It can also leave you with some unanswered questions, especially when the loss came about not from death, but from a choice your friend made that you couldn’t accept.
• You might never find answers, but ignoring your emotions won’t help you process grief and move forward, either.
• Exposing the fresh wound of your loss might feel painful and impossibly difficult.

Unless you unpack and work through your feelings, that wound can’t begin to properly heal. If you’re struggling to get in touch with your feelings, talking to a trusted loved one or therapist can have a lot of benefit. Sometimes talking about your feelings is easier said than done.

1. That’s where journaling can be a big help.
2. In a journal, you don’t have to hold back or censor yourself.
3. You can freely express anything, from sadness to disappointment to rage.
4. Emotions given shape through written words can seem more real — and easier to acknowledge and process.
5. Grief often provokes angry responses, especially when you feel unable to cry or openly discuss your pain.

A journal offers a safe, healthy outlet for feelings that others often expect you to keep inside. Journaling also offers the opportunity to recall happier memories. No matter what circumstances ended your friendship, treasuring the moments you shared can still have value.

Addressing a journal entry to your best friend can even give you the opportunity to “ask” unanswered questions and potentially gain some measure of closure. If the written word isn’t your strong point, try an art journal for another way to express yourself. There’s no easy way to say this, but true healing requires time.

Often more than you’d imagine. One 2019 study looked at bereavement in nearly 10,000 Australian adults who lost a close friend. The results suggest grief can impair physical and mental health, along with social function, for up to 4 years. The fact is, non-kinship losses, like the loss of a best friend, often go largely unrecognized.

1. People might understand your sadness, but society as a whole often fails to acknowledge the depth of this sorrow.
2. When you withdraw, feel exhausted or unwell, and can’t seem to stop grieving, you might be met with barely concealed exasperation or impatience instead of compassion and understanding.
3. Some people might tell you outright to “get over it already.” The two of you may not have shared blood or romantic ties, but that doesn’t really matter.

You befriended them and cultivated the relationship for years, maybe even the majority of your life. The expectation that you’ll quickly recover from this huge loss disregards your very valid grief. When you can’t fully express your feelings, it’s no surprise you might find it even more difficult to address your emotions and begin to heal.

Coping with loss in productive ways may not shorten your journey through grief, but it can transform it in other ways. Turning to loved ones for support and practicing good self-care can help you carry grief more lightly until time blunts its sharpest edges. Loss can stun you and completely derail your life.

In the immediate aftermath, you might forget about everyday activities like eating, sleeping, and showering. Time might begin to feel incomprehensible, as the days stretch on and your grief refuses to subside. While you might not feel up to getting dressed or cooking, creating a sense of normalcy could help you regain some control over your grief.

Sleep. Aim to get at least 7 to 9 hours of sleep each night. If sleep won’t come easily, try not to get frustrated. Go easy on yourself. Try to carve out pockets of time to rest during the day if you’ve had a sleepless night. Eat. It’s not unusual for your appetite to go out the window when you’re grieving, but make sure you’re still eating something throughout the day. Nutrient-rich foods might help you feel better, but again, it’s important to be gentle with yourself in this time. If the thought of cooking a healthy meal feels overwhelming, allow yourself to get takeout or have a feast of easy snacks. Get some air. Feelings starting to overwhelm you? Take them out for some air. A long walk can help you find some calm (and help you get some sleep). Unwind. Not used to naming or sitting with your feelings? Starting a meditation practice can help you begin exploring and accepting them.

If your friend died, you may find some comfort in doing something to reassure yourself that their memory will live on. You can honor them in plenty of ways. Give the idea some careful thought to come up with something uniquely suited to them. These options can offer a place to start:

Donate to their favorite charity. Volunteer for an organization or cause they supported.Host a memorial service for other friends and loved ones.Make a memory book or scrapbook.

Altruistic actions like volunteering can have added benefit. They provide the opportunity to honor your friend and convey gratitude for their presence in your life, and also allow you to give back to your community. This can help you feel more socially connected.

Things might look a little different if you lose your friend due to irreconcilable differences of opinion, but you can still hold a private memorial of sorts. You might write them a letter that acknowledges both the years of experiences you shared and your grief at losing their friendship. If mementos, photos, and other reminders of your friend are too painful to see on a daily basis, set them aside in a box for safekeeping until you feel able to revisit those memories.

Your friend’s action doesn’t erase your past. It’s OK to miss them and cherish fond memories, even if they hurt you deeply. Although there may be no one else in the world who can come close to replacing your best friend, other loved ones can offer emotional support after your loss.

Simply spending time in the company of people who understand can help you feel less alone in your distress. Let family and friends know when you don’t feel up to chatting and just need a comforting presence. It’s OK to need time to yourself, but complete isolation typically won’t help you feel any better.

Things might be a bit trickier when disagreements, not death, caused the separation. Maybe you prefer to avoid sharing details or worry that people won’t understand the reasons why you ended the friendship. Still, talking to someone you trust can often help you find relief and peace with your decision.

struggle to manage your daily routinehave trouble eating or sleeping normally constantly think about what happenedgo to great lengths to avoid reminders of your friend and their deathnotice mood changes that don’t improve experience relationship conflict

Therapy can also help you navigate grief and other turmoil after ending a long-standing friendship. Perhaps your best friend had an affair with your partner, abused their partner, committed a serious crime, or voted for a political candidate who represents a direct threat to your existence.

1. You might forgive these actions while still finding them impossible to accept without compromising your own values.
2. Acknowledging your friend wasn’t the person you imagined can cause distress that goes beyond mere grief.
3. A therapist can help validate these feelings and offer compassionate guidance as you begin coping with your loss.

Painful as it is, grief is part of the natural processes of life. It even has value, since it marks your ability to love. This might seem unlikely now, but time will help transform the sharp sting of loss into something more manageable. Crystal Raypole has previously worked as a writer and editor for GoodTherapy.

When a close friend hurts you deeply?

How to determine if the friendship should be fixed – Determining if a friendship should be fixed “depends on how much you value the friendship and whether or not you’re willing to work through the hurt,” suggests Dr. Harold Hong, a board certified psychiatrist in North Carolina.

• Your choice to fix the friendship may also depend on the outcome of your confrontation.
• If they’re defensive or refuse to take responsibility, you may need to reconsider your decision to stay friends,” says Hong.
• You don’t want to lose yourself in a friendship or be with someone who doesn’t value your feelings.” On the other hand, if they are receptive and apologetic, and you know you want to stay friends, Beauchamp suggests taking the time you need to heal and returning to the friendship when you feel ready and open.

“Confronting a friend who hurt you will not be easy,” notes Dr. Nereida Gonzalez-Berrios, a board-certified psychiatrist in Texas. “The confrontation needs to be planned, so any overwhelming feelings don’t make the process difficult to restore.” Gonzalez-Berrios recommends the following steps:

Prepare yourself for what you want to talk about.Stay composed while you explain how they hurt you.Let your friend give a viable explanation — and listen,Avoid arguing, but be assertive with your point of view.Be clear about your boundaries in the relationship.

“Be honest about your feelings and use ‘I’ statements to express yourself,” suggests Hong. “For example, ‘I felt disrespected when you raised your voice at me in front of others.”‘ From there, Hong suggests you try to explain how you would like the situation to be handled differently in the future.

1. For example, ‘In the future, I would appreciate it if you would talk with me privately if you’re upset with me instead of yelling at me in front of others.'” It’s also critical that you give your friend a chance to respond.
2. Your friend may not have realized their actions were hurtful, so this is an opportunity for them to understand your perspective,” says Hong.

And while confrontation may feel intimidating, Beauchamp reminds us that giving honest feedback is sometimes the most loving thing you can do.” “To reconcile a friendship, be honest, communicate, and create a path forward together,” says Beauchamp. It’s also important to let go of resentment,

“Holding onto anger and resentment will only damage your mental health and prevent you from moving on,” explains Hong. “Try to let go of negative feelings and focus on the positive aspects of your friendship.” “You can also forgive and then steer clear of them in the future if you feel it’s in your best interest,” says Hong.

“In fact, mental health experts recommend forgiving those who have hurt you to improve your mental health and well-being.” Remember that when healing a friendship, you also need to heal yourself. Beauchamp suggests turning to tools such as meditation, breathwork, and journaling to help you process any complex emotions.

You also don’t have to heal alone. “If you’re feeling particularly overwhelmed, don’t hesitate to reach out to trusted friend or family member for support,” says Hong. “Seeking mental health assistance can also help you process your emotions and develop healthy coping mechanisms,” Forgiving a friend won’t always be easy, and it may take some time for things to return to normal.

Still, forgiveness and healing are possible if both you and your friend are willing to work on the relationship. And either way, your mental health will thank you for practicing forgiveness. “Friendships are like all other relationships, there are stages and phases, and things change.

What is the most painful grief?

The death of a husband or wife is well recognized as an emotionally devastating event, being ranked on life event scales as the most stressful of all possible losses.

What is the agony of losing someone?

What is bereavement? – Bereavement is the grief and mourning experience following the death of someone important to you. While it’s an inevitable part of life—something that virtually all of us go through at some point—losing someone you love can be one of the most painful experiences you’ll ever have to endure.

Whether it’s a close friend, spouse, partner, parent, child, or other relative, the death of a loved one can feel overwhelming. You may experience waves of intense and very difficult emotions, ranging from profound sadness, emptiness, and despair to shock, numbness, guilt, or regret. You might rage at the circumstances of your loved one’s death—your anger focused on yourself, doctors, other loved ones, or God.

You may even find it difficult to accept the person is really gone, or struggle to see how you can ever recover and move on from your loss. Bereavement isn’t limited to emotional responses, either. Grief at the death of a loved one can also trigger physical reactions, including weight and appetite changes, difficulty sleeping, aches and pains, and an impaired immune system leading to illness and other health problems.

The level of support you have around you, your personality, and your own levels of health and well-being can all play a role in how grief impacts you following bereavement. But no matter how much pain you’re in right now, it’s important to know that there are healthy ways to cope with the anguish and come to terms with your grief.

While life may never be quite the same again, in time you can ease your sorrow, start to look to the future with hope and optimism, and eventually move forward with your life.

Is it hard losing a friend?

Losing a Close Friend | How to Cope With the Loss Although it’s often overlooked, the loss of a friend is just as devastating as that of any other loved one. It comes with the same force and it quickly takes you through a whirlwind of emotions before it throws you at grief’s mercy.

Is it normal to cry over losing a friend?

Allow yourself to be emotional – If the friend you lost was a close one, you are probably going to be upset. You might even cry, too. That’s NORMAL! Allow yourself to feel these strong emotions and identify them. When I’ve lost friends, I’ve noticed that I feel lonely, inadequate, and nostalgic.

Is PTSD friendship real?

Friendship PTSD And The Joys Of A Smaller Social Circle describes PTSD, aka post-traumatic stress disorder, as a mental health condition triggered by a terrifying event. This can happen either by experiencing it firsthand or witnessing someone else go through it. Although this form of PTSD is not widely discussed, people frequently experience it.

Many friendships run their course and lose their luster after a major disagreement. Whatever the situation, is a valid feeling; for those who have experienced it, having a smaller group of trusted people may be the antidote. What Is Friendship PTSD? Friendship PTSD is a condition that is set in motion after a relationship ends.

People can choose to go their separate ways either because their bond naturally ends, or there was a massive falling out. The feelings that emerge after the end of a close bond can trigger strong emotions like anger, detachment and distrust in other relationships.

Human connections can be complex, and of an alliance that once used to be vibrant can be traumatic. Photo Credit: Briona Baker The Aftermath A friend breakup can be uncomfortable and even horrific for many, there is a mourning period that follows that process. It is important to sit with the feeling, reflect on the end of the relationship and focus on the future.

The effects of this can be loneliness, anger and a stream of other unidentifiable and confusing emotions. It is important to find a way to leverage the upset and strategically forge ahead with life. The reality of life is that not all things are meant to last forever, and human relationships are experiences that often fall short and come to an end.

1. In spite of the way relationships end, it is possible to find joy again.
2. Photo Credit: Louis Galvez A Tighter Circle Finding inner peace again after the end of a friendship that no longer serves you is possible.
3. While it’s a great idea to take time out to reflect on what happened and plan toward the future, it is also worth it to determine the kind of bonds that you want to form with others moving forward.

Vetting the people around you, and taking the time to maintain a great link with those who are already trusted in your inner circle is important. This strategy is one of the most effective forms of self-healing after trauma because it gives you the opportunity to maintain a with familiar, friendly faces while strengthening your mind and rebuilding your self esteem.

What are the stages of losing a friend?

Common Feelings After Losing a Best Friend – The five stages of grief is a framework that includes denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. After losing a best friend, you may experience some or all of these feelings. Use these tips to help you cope with each stage of grief:

Denial, Allow reminders of your best friend to help ease you through the denial stage. This could mean looking at photographs, listening to meaningful songs, visiting their gravesite or planning their memorial. Reminders of your close relationship will help you accept the reality of loss. Anger, Look for ways to channel your anger in a healthy way, perhaps through exercise like running, swimming or kickboxing. Bargaining, After losing a best friend, you may find yourself bargaining with a higher power, thinking thoughts like, “If only I had called him that night, he’d still be here.” Talk about these feelings with those closest to you. Not only can they provide support, they can also offer some perspective that may help you better accept the loss of your best friend. Depression, If you find yourself experiencing deep sadness, look for a creative way to express your feelings. Activities like journaling or reading can help you avoid unhealthy behaviors and vices when the sadness is overwhelming. Acceptance, Find ways to commemorate the life of your best friend by memorializing their legacy,

The loss of a best friend can bring up an array of emotions and can leave you with some unanswered questions. While you may never get the answers you want, ignoring these common feelings after losing your best friend will only make your grief worse.