What Is Grief Really Like?
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What is your gender?
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How old are you?
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What was the relationship to you of the person who died?
(The vertical axis represents the number of respondents who selected each answer.)
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How close were you to the person who died?
(The vertical axis represents the percentage of respondents who selected each answer.)
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How long ago was your loss?
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Did you experience any of the following symptoms?
(The chart shows only the nine most common responses.)
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In the first six months, how intense were your symptoms of grief on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being most intense and 1 being least intense?
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Were your friends able to understand and empathize with you while you were grieving?
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Were your colleagues able to understand and empathize with you while you were grieving?
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Was your family able to understand and empathize with you while you were grieving?
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Do you feel you were able to freely express your grief?
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Do you feel as if you moved on easily and had the support you needed to do so?
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Did you feel as if people wanted you to move on, stop talking about it, or "get over it, already"?
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Did you see a therapist or another professional to cope with your grief?
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Did anyone encourage you to seek professional help?
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Did you feel alone with your grief in the first six months after your loss?
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How long did it take you to get back to feeling relatively normal again after your loss?
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Did you take any time off work because of your loss?
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Would you have liked to take more time off from work? If so, what was the reason you didn't?
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Did you use online grieving communities such as virtual cemeteries, online support groups, or Facebook memorial pages?
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Would you have liked there to be more options for commonly practiced grief rituals—anything from lamenting to wearing black—that you could have participated in?