Your loss is the worst in your world!

If you feel your loss is the worst in the world, that is because it is!
Your loss is the worst in your world!

Often in our attempt to live with our loss (whatever it may be), we minimise it when speaking with others, and even tell ourselves ‘at least…’; ‘it could have been worse…’ This is a very common and normal cultural coping strategy of managing losses and sadnesses.

In minimising what you are feeling and experiencing, you tell yourself it isn’t the worst loss. This is like telling yourself an untruth, because it is your worst loss, and so therefore there is disparity in what you are truly feeling and what you are sharing with the world. The space between your (sometimes unconscious) truth and what you are outwardly sharing is a place where anxiety can frequently thrive. Maybe you have experienced something similar?
#psychotherapy #loss #grief #anxiety