Try: Some care recipients cr may feel grief over the death of a pet while this may seem unusual it is important to remember that everyone grieves differently grieving is a personal and highly individual experience some people find grief comes in stages where they experience different feelings such as denial anger guilt depression and eventually acceptance and resolution feeling sad frightened or lonely is a normal reaction to the loss of a beloved pet exhibiting these feelings doesn’t mean the cr is weak trying to ignore pain or keep it from surfacing will only make it worse in the long run for real healing it is necessary to face grief and actively deal with it one aspect that can make grieving for the loss of a pet so difficult is that pet loss is not appreciated by everyone friends and family may ask downplay the pet’s importance they may not understand because they don’t have a pet of their own or because they are unable to appreciate the companionship and love that a pet can provide don’t let the cr argue with others about whether his grief is appropriate or not information references helpguide org

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