• Bodily distress of some type
• Preoccupation with the image of the deceased
• Guilt relating to the deceases or circumstances of the death
• Hostility
• Inability to function as before the death
• Development of traits of the deceased

Because grief is so painful we wonder if we're grieving in the "right way". Most grieving people experience one or more of the following:

• Feeling tightness in the throat or heaviness in the chest
• Having an empty feeling in their stomach and losing their appetite
• Feeling guilty at times and angry at others
• Feeling restless and looking for activity but finding it difficult to concentrate
• Feeling as though the loss isn't real
• Sensing the loved one's presence, like finding themselves expecting the person to walk in the door at the usual time, hearing their voice, or seeing their face.
• Wandering aimlessly and forgetting or not finishing things they've started around the house
• Having difficulty sleeping and dreaming of their loved one frequently
• Assuming mannerisms or traits of their loved one
• Experiencing an intense preoccupation with the life of the deceased
• Feeling as though they need to take care of the people around them by politely not talking about their feelings of loss
• Needing to tell and retell experiences of the loved ones' death
• Experiencing mood changes over the slightest things and crying at unexpected times
• Not wanting to go on living
• Feeling tired all the time.