Grief Disorder Treatment In Los Angeles
At The Meadowglade, we recognize that grief disorder can profoundly impact an individual’s life and well-being.
Contact us today to begin therapy and find your path to recovery.
Dealing with grief is one of the most difficult and painful parts of life. Losing someone you love can make your whole world come to a halt, and you find it difficult to summon the strength to move on. The Meadowglade understands your need for compassion and effective treatment to help you get your head above water and stop feeling consumed by grief.
The Meadowglade offers complex grief disorder treatment in Los Angeles that enables people to process their grief with licensed therapists and begin to understand how to move forward. We offer several types of therapy that minimize the symptoms of grief while helping the person regain their good mental health and live with more peace of mind. We also provide access to prescription medications that help ease symptoms such as depression, hopelessness, and anxiety.
If you or a loved one are struggling, learn more about treatment for mental disorders by verifying your insurance or calling us at 888-862-1788.
What is Grief Disorder?
A grief disorder is triggered by the death of a person or pet, or other tangible loss that leaves people feeling depressed and hopeless. It impacts their personal and professional lives, causes them to isolate, and they often focus completely on their loss.
When someone struggles with a grief disorder and is unable to move through the stages of grief successfully, they need mental health treatment from a professional and licensed facility.
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Types of Grief Disorders
A person can suffer from different types of grief disorders. It’s helpful for the clinician treating them to diagnose which kind they have, so it can be treated correctly.
The types of grief disorders include:
- Absent or Delayed: The individual does not begin the grief process immediately, often because they are unable to access their emotions or they are fixated on details like planning a funeral.
- Anticipatory: This can happen to people who anticipate a loss, such as a loved one being diagnosed with a fatal illness.
- Chronic or Prolonged: The symptoms continue for a long period of time and can lead to depression.
- Complicated: The symptoms last beyond 12 months, and the person is unable to move forward.
- Disenfranchised: Mourning the loss of something like a pet or a miscarriage, which some members of society do not think is as painful as the death of a person.
- Distorted: The individual has a larger and more distorted grief response to their loss than is common.
- Secondary Loss: Triggered by the loss of a certain way of living, such as rejection from family or leaving a cult.
- Traumatic: Loss related to a traumatic event, such as physical assault, a mass shooting, or a natural disaster.
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Signs and Symptoms of a Grief Disorder
When someone struggles with a grief disorder, they will act, think, and feel in certain ways that indicate they can benefit from treatment.
These signs and symptoms include:
- Constantly thinking about the loss
- Crying
- Sleeping too much or too little
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Hopelessness
- Moodiness
- Denial of the loss
- Frequent discussion about the loss
- Feeling guilty
- Changes in weight or appetite
- Getting stuck in the cycles of grief and not completing them
- Isolating
- Suicidal ideation
Treatment Programs in Los Angeles for Complicated Grief
The Meadowglade offers different levels of care as part of our grief disorder treatment in Los Angeles. This allows people to get their specific needs met on the level that is right for them.
Our treatment programs include:
- Residential Treatment: A good program for people dealing with severe symptoms who can benefit from living in our comfortable and luxurious facility.
- Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP): Therapy appointments take place Monday through Friday for several hours each day.
- Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP): Therapy appointments take place for a few hours per day on three to five days per week.
- Outpatient Program: Therapy appointments take place once or twice a week.
- Young Adult Treatment: Our treatment program for young adults who benefit from the peer support of people their age.
How Does Bereavement Disorder Affect Someone?
Going through a major loss affects people in several ways. It can cause them to feel ill effects related to their health, such as body aches, headaches, nausea, and diarrhea. Bereavement also causes feelings of depression and sorrow that make it difficult to accomplish daily responsibilities, do well at work, or attend school. The person usually feels like they can’t see past their grief or picture ever returning to a sense of peace or normalcy.
The Stages of Grief
When someone enters a period of grief, they go through five stages. They include:
- Denial: The person feels unable to accept the news of their loss.
- Anger: Feelings of frustration and anger that the loss has taken place.
- Bargaining: The individual attempts to make irrational deals, often with a higher power, by promising to do something in exchange for the return of their loved one.
- Depression: Becoming consumed with sadness and experiencing crying jags or emotional withdrawal.
- Acceptance: Recognizing the loss that has happened and accepting it.
How is Complicated Grief Treated?
Our grief disorder treatment in Los Angeles approaches healing from grief with three specific focuses. One is participating in traditional talk therapies that include one-on-one therapy and group sessions. We also provide holistic therapies that help people learn to work on their physical, mental, and spiritual health simultaneously. Finally, our team provides access to FDA-approved medications that help ease the symptoms of grief.
Why The Meadowglade?
The Meadowglade recognizes that grief is a private experience that people handle in different ways. Part of our program for grief disorder treatment in Los Angeles includes getting to know the individuals we treat, which enables us to tailor a plan that meets them where they are in their grief journey. We design a menu of the types of therapies that will help people express their emotions and begin to heal.
Begin Grief Disorder Treatment in Los Angeles
Are you experiencing grief and feel consumed by it to the point that you don’t feel capable of moving on? The Meadowglade offers highly effective grief disorder treatment in Los Angeles to help you understand how to process your loss and come to terms with it. Our staff understands how loss feels and will guide you through the steps that allow you to live without being consumed by grief.
Contact us today to find out more about our program. Remember that you deserve to feel happy again while still honoring the memory of loved ones you have lost.
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Yj Kim, MD
Psychiatrist
Haroon Burhanullah, MD
Psychiatrist
Narine Babikian, MHA
Executive Director
