American culture does not know how to deal with grief and mourning. According to psychiatry online 68% of Americans develop disorders from unresolved grief*. Our culture is consistently ignoring its pain and saying that it’s pain unimportant. Why do we stifle our tears? Why can’t “real men” cry? Why, as a culture, are we embarrassed by our emotions? Why do we say everything is fine when it is not? If so many Americans today are struggling with their grief why will we not change?
So many people celebrate babies, birthdays, weddings, life, and when someone dies we pretend like nothing happened and they were not important. We, as the future of America, need to change the preconceived notions of grief.
Grief is natural process that happens to everyone and the future generations of America need to embrace and deal with their grief. People will always suffer from loss; we will lose pets, children, relatives, those who are close to us and who we love. We must acknowledge our pain and deal with our problems. No more hiding in the dark or pretending loss does not affect us. When something hurts, say it hurts, then fix the problem. Deal with your grief. Take time to mourn. We need to change.
