There should be a scale...

[taura_g]

Normally something like this would go on my JTFNA filter--but since I really don't think "we" (society as a whole) talk about grief enough I am just going put it under a cut.   Feel free to skip over it.

Comments

[lillibet]

Yeah, The Bully Plays does bring a lot of stuff to the surface. My neighbor laughed at me for tearing up just describing one of the more difficult pieces to her. Thank you for doing the work.

[mizarchivist]

Thank you, as always, for sharing. I think that scale makes a lot of sense.

[tigira]

Thank you. This scale does make sense in regard to grief.

I will keep this in mind.

[hammercock]

It does seem obvious now that you've laid it out. I hope that it simmers down after the play is overwith. That and the wedding seem like an awful lot of bear-poking. *hug*

I had one of those short, sharp bursts of grief on our way out of NYC last Tuesday afternoon. We were driving through the Alphabet City neighborhood of lower Manhattan, and we passed the German pub where we had gone to drown our sorrows in alcohol on the afternoon of the day Laura died. Just...WHAM. Probably a 5 or 6. It was all I could do not to start sobbing behind the wheel. :-/ But in writing it about it now, it's more of a small, dull throb.

[drwex]

I have sometimes used the 0-10 scale to describe emotional pain. My problem has been that the ordering gets me mixed up. I don't generally say to my doc "I'm at a 6 on the pain scale" as the first thing. Usually it's like "this headache is killing me" followed by "how bad is it" followed by "about a 6."

But when I'm in that level or kind of emotional pain I usually don't want to talk about it. Saying it's a 6 causes people to ask about why. It's hard for me.

I hope it works well for you - it seems to make sense. *hugs*