I am one of the few remaining original bloggers at Families.com and have been writing the Mental Health blog for five years and boy have those years gone by! I have really enjoyed the interaction between myself and you, the readers, through the vehicle of my articles.
But most of all I have enjoyed the opportunity to help those who needed knowledge, reassurance and just a place to come and vent their pain. A place to just talk to see that they are not alone in dealing with mental health problems, whether that health has affected them or a family member or friend.
Some of my regular readers may have noticed that in the latter part of this year I have written several articles about coping with death, dealing with funerals and other aspects surrounding the death process.
I have written about a whole range of different mental health issues, but these particular articles were, for the first time, personal in nature.
My mother died recently and today would have been her birthday. I decided to write these articles about coping with death and share them with others, as they are pertinent to everyone’s life, as everyone has, as some time or other, to deal with the death of a loved one.
So rather than deal with the death of my final parent with my family, I decided to share that experience with the readers of this blog, in the hope that they may derive some comfort from them. I have written about the thoughtful, ridiculous and funny things that people say after a death. I discussed the little known “orphan syndrome” – a surprisingly common condition that people feel when their last parent dies, even though they are not children.
In my next blog, I will talk more about the death of my mother.
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