{"id":2335,"date":"2019-03-08T18:47:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T18:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=237513"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:15","slug":"woman-perfectly-breaks-down-grief-using-ball-in-the-box-analogy-on-twitter-and-it-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/woman-perfectly-breaks-down-grief-using-ball-in-the-box-analogy-on-twitter-and-it-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Perfectly Breaks Down Grief Using \u2018Ball In The Box\u2019 Analogy On Twitter And It Goes Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/drb960u7vv58y.cloudfront.net\/resize\/238097\/1200\/630\/image.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">After the loss of a loved one, the grieving process is complex, and often life-long. Unless you\u2019ve experienced this firsthand, it may be hard to understand another grieving person\u2019s behavior.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Then again, even if you <em>do<\/em> know how it feels, it can be hard to explain what it\u2019s like to other people.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">One of the biggest issues with trying to explain grief is that emotions can change. They can come and go. But it\u2019s not that simple. The sadness is beyond sadness, and can be absolutely staggering. It is constantly shifting in strength.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Finding the language to explain this clearly is important \u2014 and Lauren Herschel, a Twitter user, explained what a doctor told her. Her analogy of \u2018the ball and the box\u2019 really resonated with a lot of people, and her thread explaining grief went viral.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">This is how Herschel\u2019s doctor explained how grief is triggered in the brain:<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><span class=\"empty\">Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/gfl-grief-ball-box\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the loss of a loved one, the grieving process is complex, and often life-long. Unless you\u2019ve experienced this firsthand, it may be hard to understand another grieving person\u2019s behavior.Then again, even if you do know how it feels, it can be hard to explain what it\u2019s like to other people.One of the biggest issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45827,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions\/45827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}