Coping with losing a loved one is one of lifes great difficulties. Most of us have experienced the pain of mourning.....not everyone grieves the same way...We have individual patterns and outlets for... Mourning is the biological process of the brain-body for healing and recovery from loss. Human attachment is deeply mapped in the limbic cortex, as the story of our relationships. It exists in the brain as the top-down cortical mappings of relationships. Mourning a death is the change from the deeply held story of a relationship to a new “play” where the loved one is dead and gone. Keep in mind that antidepressants should never be prescribed for grief. They inhibit mourning. They numb out feeling and harden the personality. I’ve treated many patients who had been on antidepressants for years and years after a death. It wasn’t until they got off of them that they were able to mourn and feel and come back to the world of the living. This is what it is to be human. Grief is not a brain problem, but part of the human condition. The processes of mourning follow the basic brain principles for change in top-down cortical mappings. To change the top-down limbic cortical mappings from one play to accept a play of absence is called mourning. This is the process for healing from death, loss, trauma, and pain in psychotherapy. And for sure, if you would numb yourself with antidepressants, you would never be emotionally available and healed. Life is difficult and healing from tragedies is very hard and has a life of its own.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 04:02:42 +0000