All too often, adults are overcome with their own shock, sadness and sorrow to notice their children are grieving too. For teens and children, as adults, there is no magic wand in overcoming grief. It is a process, and it is as individual as the people who are going through it. Grieving teens may experience many of the same emotions being experienced by grieving adults. Denial, anger, helplessness, sadness, loneliness and guilt are all common feelings.
Teens typically feel that they and their friends are impervious to death and disease.
When a death occurs, they begin to realize that death is part of life and could happen to anyone at any given moment and any given time. The stages of grief are not linear. There will be peaks and valleys and inevitable bumps in the road. Shock, denial, regression, guilt, bargaining and finally acceptance are the myriad of emotions that are part of the healing process called grief. There are many ways in which you can support your grieving teen.