Hello

I just recently lost my Grandmother to a stroke. I feel so sad and depressed because she helped raise me and she lived in my family home with me for most of my life. I'm worried that the grief I'm feeling will result in full blown anxiety and depression again. I've been through the program and have recovered wonderfully up until now. To compound this, I recently just lost my job too. I guess I just need some positive affirmations right now. Thanks.


Trish

I offer you my prayers, but I have seen what a stroke can do to someone. Just know that you are not alone no matter how much you feel that way.

Tricia,

I am sorry to hear about your loss. My grandmother has Alzheimer's and has been in a nursing home for the last three years. It has been so hard to watch her deteriorate. I think my whole family will be relieved when she finally passes out of this world and into the next where her spirit will be free and finally at peace. In a way, we have already been mourning her loss because she is not the same person she was before the Alzheimer's. She doesn't recognize us and sleeps in a wheelchair most of the time. When she is awake, she often has anxiety attacks.

What brings me comfort is to know that she will one day be with God in heaven and will be waiting there for the rest of us when it is our turn. Our lives on this earth are so brief compared to eternity. While it may seem like an eternity to live without our loved ones when they pass away, we will be joining them before we know it.

Wishing you peace and comfort...

Jen

Trish: Are you going to let that happen? . . go back into depression and anxiety? It sounds to me like you are the one that has the control here? Your Gramma loved you, would she want her passing to make you so unhappy? She's in a beautiful garden of eden now happy and free of pain. Maybe you could celebrate her life instead of mourning loosing her. She's fine, you're the one suffering.

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