“Just because I
stopped blogging about it, doesn’t mean it went away!”
I recently wrote a blog post on ways to look after your
mental health at Christmastime and I talked a little about what a festive
person I am and that I didn’t want to come across as not knowing what I was
talking about. Like many blog posts, it made me think a lot afterwards and I realized
that actually, this year, I can, sort of, identify with some people struggling
at this time of year. And whilst the cause for my struggle might seem lesser
than others, it’s important to recognize that grief is grief. A person’s
turmoil shouldn’t depend on how close the relative was or whether the loss was
a human or animal; because it isn’t always about who you’ve lost but what
you’ve lost.
This year will be the first Christmas without my Cat, Dolly.
This week it will have been two months since she was put to sleep. If you don’t
have a clue what I’m talking about then here’s the posts I wrote at the time:
here and here because this post isn’t for going through the whole story again;
it’s about having to move on.
