How can grief and depression help me connect with others?

Grief increases your capacity to feel interdependent and connected with others. Everyone experiences tragic losses. The deeper you can enter into your loss, the more connected you will be with everyone else.

By listening to your depression, which pulls you out of your daily activities so that you can dwell in your emotional response to your losses, you will gain access to some of the most fundamental human experiences shared by everyone. If you try to steel yourself against the pain of loss, you will feel increasingly lonely, alienated, and isolated. You may feel that your loss is unique and that no one could ever understand the nature of your loss.

You are right. But everyone else will have losses that are similarly singular in their pain and impact. So, while the particular nature and pain of your loss is unique, the fact of your pain and loss is not.

Grief then becomes your bridge that allows you to connect with others. The deeper you go into your own grief, the more you can share with others who have lost. In this way, depression, by slowing you down and forcing you to relate to your loss, is forging your link to others.

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