After Greenbelt, MD cremations, the intense part of grieving begins. As the shock and numbness from your loved one’s death wears off, people leave, and everybody else gets back to their own lives, you are left to take of the business that accompanies the end of a life and to deal with the reality of your loved one’s death and absence.

This can be a very isolating experience and it can seem, at times, that you are all alone in the grieving process. As you go through memories, whether it’s cleaning out closets, dressers, and desks or it’s going through old letters and pictures, or it’s simply passing by something your loved one wore or a present your loved one gave you, grief intensifies. You realize life is never going to be the same again.

Sharing photos of your love one online can be a very therapeutic act. While you may not know everyone in person that you’re connected to through social media, relationships on some level have been developed and cultivated. So you can share the photos and your thoughts and feelings and get comfort and support. All of this can decrease some of the depressing feelings of being all alone and that nobody else cares. It can also take away some of the feeling of being isolated in your grief.

What sharing photos on social media does psychologically is to allow you to reflect on the emotions that you are experiencing and to feel more connected to the memories of your loved one. It also invites people to share their memories of your loved one, if they knew them, and to offer solace if they didn’t know them.

It may take you a while to decide to share photos online. People deal with death and grief in very different ways. Some people just bare their souls right away and other people grieve more privately. Some people avoid anything that reminds them of their loved one for a period of time after death, because the reminder of loss is too painful for them to bear. Other people dig deep into everything about their loved one because it gives them a sense of comfort.

Whether you wait to share photos of your loved one online and share your memories of them and your feelings about their death or you start sharing photos right away and dig up every memory of your loved one you can possibly find is a personal choice.

Nobody’s in a position to know how you feel and what you’re going through except you. You don’t have to explain yourself to anybody. There is always a group of people in everyone’s life who will not be happy with certain choices. They may feel they have the right to criticize, judge, and, sadly, condemn, what they don’t understand or don’t agree with.

You’ll experience some hurtful things from other people during the grieving process. Even though they don’t mean to be intentionally hurtful, some people will cause you even more pain. With time and distance – and you’ll find yourself disconnecting from hurtful people, which is healthy – you will be able to see things more clearly and to forgive them, even if they’re no longer a part of your life.

If you’d like more information about grief resources after Greenbelt, MD cremations, you can talk with our expert staff at Donald V. Borgwardt Funeral Home, P.A. You can drop by our funeral home at 4400 Powder Mill Rd., Beltsville, MD, 20705, or you can contact us today at (301) 937-1707.