“It might hit less and less and you have more time to recover between hits, unlike when the ball was still giant. “For most people, the ball never really goes away,” she said in another tweet. But the downside is that the ball randomly hits that button when you least expect it. It’s better because you can function day to day more easily. It hits the button less and less but when it does, it hurts just as much. Maybe you see someone who reminds you of your loved one. Over time, the ball shrinks - but every now and then, it still hits the button. I thought I’d share the Ball in the Box analogy my Dr told me /YfFT26ffU8 Saw a lady who reminded me of my 92yo grandma, who even in the early stages of dementia, completely understood that my mom died. Sometimes it seems unrelenting.Īfter what has been a surprisingly okayish Christmas, I had a moment today in SuperStore. You can’t control it – it just keeps hurting. It rattles around on its own in there and hits the button over and over. “You can’t move the box without the ball hitting the pain button. “In the beginning, the ball is huge,” Herschel said in a tweet. On the left side of box is a red “button.” When the grief is new, she explained, the ball takes up most of the box and is hitting the button, which represents pain, over and over again. Herschel drew a box (square) with a ball (circle) inside. Her analogy - and the pictures she drew to explain it - have been retweeted over 3,700 times. To show this, Twitter user Lauren Herschel shared an analogy that explains how grief changes over time and why it can still bubble up randomly. Everyone grieves differently, and there’s certainly no timeline that lets you know how you’re supposed to feel. Subscribe to our Mental Health Matters newsletter. Get our most helpful mental health articles and tips delivered straight to your inbox.
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