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Read more: https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/talkabout/articles/what-is-anticipatory-grief/271278
TIL that Anticipatory Grief is grief you exoerience before a person dies. It is common for children to feel about their parents or the family members of those with terminal illness.
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I get this a lot for my elderly parents.
Yep. Caring for both parents who are in decline (stroke and dementia). I feel like I’ve been anticipating the terminal points of their suffering for years.
This sounds so familiar, the upside is that it makes me appreciate the time that is left much more. I actively make more time to spend with them.
On the other hand it makes it feel so bitter sweet sometimes.
I hate the transcience of life, haven’t found a way to properly deal with it…
Just lost my mother to cancer a few months back. We were really close so I was shocked by how well I took it (I fully expected to be in full meltdown mode for months but I was back on my feet in a few days). I feel like this might be because I began grieving the day I got her diagnosis which I happened to get right in the same week I got my partner’s diagnosis. I had a straight week when, despite being an atheist, I cursed every possibly existing god in every possibly existing universe, cried a lot, and developed some unhealthy coping mechanisms. Point is, I anticipated my mother’s death so when it hit, maybe it wasn’t as bad.