How Will I Get Through the Holidays? 12 Ideas for Those Whose Loved One Has Died

2. Feel whatever it is you feel.  You will have emotional reactions to the impact of the holidays.  You are human.  No one else will feel exactly the way you do, when you do, with the same intensity.  Some feelings you may experience: 1. Sadness: It is sad to think about what you have lost, what can never happen again, what you’ll have to learn to live without. 2. Depression: You may feel desolate or despairing, depleted of all energy, listlessness, and alone. 3. Anxiety: You may feel nervous and jittery, ill at ease and full of uncertainty. 4. Fear: You may be afraid of what will happen to you, how you will cope, what you will do, even if you will survive. 5. Anger: You may be mad at people who don’t understand or support you, angry about the death, upset with yourself, with God or with the whole world. 6. Guilt: You may dwell upon what you did or didn’t do, feel guilty you are living and they are not, or that you have moments of happiness. 7. Apathy: You may feel no feelings; feel numb, confused and disoriented.