"I attended a conference once where one of the presenters said that when people undergo a major change in their lives they experience something very similar to grief. ‘Similar?’, I thought to myself. ‘No, it is more than similar, it is identical; it is grief’. Grief is our reaction to loss, not just our reaction to bereavement....
"This is what I mean by the invisibility of grief. There are so many situations in which it is a significant factor and yet will often receive little or no consideration.... I have come across social care workers who have...given no thought to the grief the person concerned is likely to be experiencing.... However, it is the proportion of caring professionals who do not do so that causes me some degree of consternation...."
http://www.socialjusticesolutions.org/2013/08/19/the-invisibility-of-grief/
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