Types of Ambiguous Loss

There are many types of ambiguous loss. Perhaps you can identify with one of the circumstances below:

Does someone close to you have Alzheimer’s disease or dementia?
Are you suffering a loss after divorce?
Is someone you love in a coma?
Do you know someone who is missing?
Are you living with someone who has an obsession and is detached from every day life?
Has the person you love been moved into a care home?
Are you living or working away from home and missing your family?
Has someone close to you had a stroke or brain injury?
Do you know someone with a terminal diagnosis such as cancer?
Has someone who has been missing, died or been presumed dead?
Does someone you know have an addiction and you are finding it hard to cope?
Do you feel like running away or going missing?
Have you just left everything behind, after fleeing domestic abuse?
Have you had a miscarriage or stillborn loss?
Has someone you know been ‘missing in action’?
Does your partner or spouse constantly travel or in the army?
Has someone who was previously missing, returned to your life?
Have you been affected by someone who has taken their own life?
Have your children left home and you are missing them?
Is chronic mental illness affecting your relationship with someone?
Are you a missing person and your life in limbo?
Does someone you love have a degenerative disease such as Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's Disease or Motor Neurone Disease?
Does someone who has been missing in your life, not want contact?
Is someone you know missing following a catastrophic tragedy, such as an accident or natural disaster?
Have you emigrated and are missing those back at home?
Are you unsettled now you are back at home, having previously been missing?
Is your life in limbo?

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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. - Paulo Coelho

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Types of Ambiguous Loss

Ambiguous Loss