Grief Management

What is grief management?

Grief is a natural response to loss. It’s the emotional suffering you feel when something or someone you love is taken away. Often, the pain of loss can be overwhelming. You may experience all kinds of difficult and unexpected emotions, from shock or anger to disbelief, guilt, and profound sadness. The pain of grief can also disrupt your physical health, making it difficult to sleep, eat, or even think logically.  Coping with the loss of someone or something you love is one of life’s biggest challenges.

Whatever type of loss you’ve suffered, there’s no right or wrong way to grieve. However, by understanding the stages and types of grief, you can find healthier ways to cope and overcome grief.

What can we do to help you through your grief?

American Wellness Center based in Dubai Healthcare City offers one-on-one grief consultations and grief support groups for individuals and families who are affected by grief.

Our western qualified and trained therapists can help you to understand what to expect from grief, how grief can impact you, and how to heal and deal with it.

If you, or someone you know is grieving for any of the below mentioned reasons, regardless of when the loss occurred, we can help:

• Divorce or relationship breakup
• Loss of health
• Loss of a job
• Loss of financial stability
• A miscarriage
• Retirement
• Loss of pet
• Loss of cherished dream
• A loved one’s serious illness
• Loss of friendship
• Relocation
• Homesickness

When is the right time for you to seek help to cope with your grief?

If you experience any of these symptoms, we encourage you to seek help for your Doctor or a counsellor:

• You feel that your grief is making you unhealthy or sick
• You feel that you have been grieving for much longer than you think you should have grieved for that particular loss
• You keep thinking about harming yourself or ending your life
• You are worried that you might hurt others
• You are hallucinating (hearing or seeing things that are not there, or hearing and seeing things that make you feel scared)
• Your behaviour changes suddenly (like eating very little or eating too much)
• You have felt hopeless and unable to cope with life for more than two weeks
• You cannot function at home, work or school
• You just cannot get over a feeling of guilt if you’re speaking and body movements have become slow and tired

How can we help?

At American Wellness Center Dubai our mental and medical healthcare professionals implement several therapies for grief management. Treatment options include:

• Individual counselling
• group therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Medication (Psychiatry)
• Outpatient rehabilitation

Grief counselling can help anyone who is going through a major loss, but for some, it's crucial to get help. If your pain is overwhelmingly intense, lasts for over many months, or is affecting the way you function in your daily life, grief counselling is one of the best ways to deal with the loss and find your way forward.

Give us a call or visit us in Dubai Healthcare City.