Saturday, November 21, 2009

Allow for numbness


Feeling dazed or numb when your baby dies is often part of your early grief experience. This numbness serves a valuable purpose; it gives your emotions time to catch up with what your mind has been told. You may feel as if the world has suddenly come to a halt. Your plans and dreams for the future have been assaulted.

You may feel you are in a dream-like state. As one mother said, "It's like running headfirst into a solid wall. I was stunned and didn't want to believe the words I was hearing. I wanted someone to wake me up and tell me this wasn't happening."

Feelings of numbness and disbelief help create insulation from the reality of the death until you are more able to tolerate what you don't want to believe.

2 comments:

helicopter Mum of 6 ♡ said...

Thinking of you, your family, Isabel and Samuel...

God Bless you all...

P.S. Thank you so much for the GOOT recipe. I made some this weekend and am trying it out starting tonight!

-Stephanie

Debra said...

Thank you Stephanie.