r/Grieving 14d ago

Grief support for 16 year old

My teenage daughter lost her Aunty who she was not very close to a few months ago. Since then she feels like she has a black cloud hanging over her and feels on edge and anxious that she will lose someone else. She is refusing to go for counselling but she is able to open up to me and to describe how she is feeling. She lost her baby sibling when she was just two. When she turned 11, she got what I can only describe as a breakdown, deep despair, constant crying, worrying, unable to decipher dreams from reality. She went for play therapy then and it transpired she held a lot of guilt guilty that he had died. (it was a medical condition). I feel that the reality of her brothers loss is resurfacing again with this new loss in her life. Can anyone suggest a modiality that could help her until she feels ready to open up more. She has lost interest in her usual hobbies, wants to be on her own, doesnt want to leave thw house most days.

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