Their list includes bankruptcy, which is more than the collapse of your financial life. It is the shattering of your dreams. When you are forced to declare bankruptcy, grief sets in. Serious health changes, they say, can also cause grief. The style of life you once lived can be no longer.
Abuse sets grief in motion.
You grieve over the joys lost because of an abusive childhood or marriage. Moving, leaving friends and family and known surroundings brings grief. Marriages, graduations, empty nest are all experiences in our lives that involve loss, and that loss inevitably triggers grief. Whatever your own loss happens to be, sooner or later the holiday blues are inescapable. With that said, my purpose today is not to eliminate the holiday blues.