I watched the movie On the Edge of Life a few days ago. The movie penetrates people's hearts. In the movie, we see the deep pain, feelings of guilt and grief experienced by a father who lost his three children after an unfortunate accident and that his grief still continues. It is really impressive, the movie affects you a lot while watching it and afterwards. Death is a situation that we all encounter frequently, as much as it concerns medicine as birth, disease and health. Mourning is the natural response to irreversible loss. This reaction is completed when the energy of what is left behind is transferred to the life outside the loss. The mourning reaction is a painful giving up that must be experienced. Mourning. Although there are individual differences in the process, the process generally consists of three different periods. 1- Shock and denial 2- Distress-restlessness and social withdrawal 3- Restructuring. The mourning process depends on the individual's personality, previous life experiences, the meaning of the loss, the relationship with the lost. It is affected by the individual's structure, social relationships, current life events, and health status. If the mourning process is completed successfully, the mourner returns to his job, social roles, and focuses on new goals. The pathological mourning process, on the other hand, disrupts the biopsychosocial functions of the individual. In the mourning process, cultural factors as well as individual factors are also important. It is important. In our society, the loss experience is shared among the relatives with some religious and cultural rituals after the death. Rituals that are shared on the 7th, 40th and 52nd days, starting from the day of the loss, are facilitating factors for the process. Supporting the grieving person for an average of 6 months-1 year is possible and sharing the problems. But sometimes experiences such as anniversaries can be challenging for a person.
In general, during the mourning process, the individual can return to business life within a few weeks, regain balance with his/her social roles within a few months, and start a new life with new and healthy relationships within approximately 6 months-1 year. can start giving direction.
If the mourning process loses its functionality or develops beyond expectations, pathological mourning is mentioned. In these people, imitation of the complaints of the deceased, the emergence of psychosomatic conditions, deterioration in interpersonal relations, displaying hostile attitudes towards certain people beyond what is expected, and the ability to cope with unacceptable anger and hostile emotions. act like a robot for Inadequacy in social relationships, self-destructive behavior in economic and social areas, emergence of agitated depression with a high risk of suicide. Early detection and treatment of pathological grief is very important for the person to survive.
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