Manifestations of normal grief

I. FEELINGS 

• Shock 
• Numbness
• Relief
• Emancipation
• Sadness
• Yearning
• Anxiety (fear)
• Anger
• Guilt and self-reproach
• Loneliness 
• Helplessness
• Hopelessness
• Abandonment
• Feeling out of control

III.        PHYSICAL SENSATIONS

• Hollowness in stomach
• Tightness in chest
• Tightness in throat
• Heart palpitations
• Oversensitivity to noise
• Sense of depersonalization (nothing seems real, including self)
• Breathlessness
• Weakness and/or tension in muscles
• Lack of energy
• Dry Mouth
• Gastrointestinal disturbances
• Loss of sexual desire

 II. COGNITIONS (Thoughts)

• Disbelief
• Confusion
• Inability to concentrate 
• Preoccupation with thoughts of the deceased
• Sense of presence
• Visual and auditory hallucinations
• Dreams of the deceased
• Sense of going crazy

IV. COMPLEX BEHAVIORS 

• Sleep disturbance
• Appetite disturbance
• Searching and calling out
• Crying
• Sighing
• Absent-minded behavior
• Restless overactivity
• Visiting places or carrying objects that remind one of the deceased
• Treasuring objects that belonged to the deceased
• Avoidance of reminders of the deceased
• Social withdrawal
• Lack of capacity to initiate and to maintain organized patterns of activity
• Identification with the deceased