Yes, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re also feeling anticipatory grief. Anticipatory grief is that feeling we get about what the future holds when we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re uncertain. Usually it centers on death. We feel it when someone gets a dire diagnosis or when we have the normal thought that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll lose a parent someday. Anticipatory grief is also more broadly imagined futures. There is a storm coming. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something bad out there. With a virus, this kind of grief is so confusing for people. Our primitive mind knows something bad is happening, but you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see it. This breaks our sense of safety. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re feeling that loss of safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yes, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re also feeling anticipatory grief. Anticipatory grief is that feeling we get about what the future holds when we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re uncertain. Usually it centers on death. We feel it when someone gets a dire diagnosis or when we have the normal thought that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll lose a parent someday. Anticipatory grief is also more broadly imagined … Continue reading That Discomfort You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re Feeling Is Grief<\/span>