The pain of losing a pet

For many of our beloved pets are our family, which are the daily lives and our way of life. Our companion animal, feathered and finned friends are constant and faithful to us, that we trust and with whom we have feelings and our secrets. They are leaders, teachers, friends and therapists. Once again, we are its caretakers. They depend on us for food and water, health and wellness, love and affection. Their lives depend on us.

Our unconditional love and our comfort and joy. You know better than us, our human friends. Many of us are closely linked with our pets. If we lose, we suffered a lot. The sadness we learned of the loss is similar and comparable to the pain we feel over the loss of a loved partner or family member. The symptoms and pain experience is through their losses are essentially the same feeling a serious loss.

Grief is one of the most painful and complex emotions of life. However, this is normal, natural and healthy reaction to loss. Unfortunately, we as people learn very little about pain and loss and how to face them again, although we do again and again throughout our lives.

The penalty is cumulative – meaning that the many experiences of sadness in our lives helps us, and the result is profound sadness and sense of loss we feel after losing a beloved animal companion and faithful. Most of us can handle some sadness, but often is the death of one in which our habits and routines, and what they eat and sleep, which, like the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back home. Despite the fact that many of us find it very difficult, with the death of people we love to tackle, are destroyed, we, if we are animal lovers, innocent and in danger of extinction, net of company-of – heart, and their lives are responsible for losing. We lose our ability to respond and could reveal some of the many symptoms and characteristics associated with pain and sadness.

It can be physical reactions such as headaches or stomachaches. We experience the rhythm of our heart, shortness of breath or feeling of heaviness in the chest. We feel ashamed, I could not sleep, eat or carry out. Psychiatric manifestations of pain may also focus on anxiety, stress, distraction or weakness. Other emotional reactions may include shock, depression, anxiety, hopelessness, guilt, crying uncontrollably and a sense of relief, loneliness, helplessness and anger of God. Socially, it can be removed or isolated from others. We feel alone, very alone.

It is important to understand that they are not alone in their grief and sadness of the loss of your pet. I am not ashamed or embarrassed about their feelings. Of the pet has a favorite friend and / or a family member deserves the love and respect. It takes time to honor, celebrate and glorify the life of your beloved pet. His spirit will remain in your heart and soul forever.

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