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4 Losses We Mourn With Chronic Illness
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The grief of chronic illness extends beyond grief over the loss of our health. We mourn the loss of our place in the world. Grief: We typically think of it in the context of significant loss, like the death of a loved one.
Irreversible. Permanent. Deeply painful. But grief isn’t reserved for that. We can and do grieve other kinds of losses. When we’re chronically ill, we grieve the loss of our health — but we grieve the loss of so much more than that, too.
Each of us is different. Our journeys with chronic illness are different, too. But chances are that we share many of the same kinds of losses.
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