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Care for the Family

Care for the Family offer help to those who are hurting. Coping with the pain, heartache and loneliness of a close bereavement is always difficult. We want to help those who are living with loss to discover hope for the future and the strength to rebuild their lives and the lives of their families.

Telephone:
029 2081 0800
Sector:
Voluntary

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An acute state of intense psychological sadness and suffering experienced after the tragic loss of a loved one.
Talking treatments can help you to overcome emotional difficulties and free yourself from self-destructive ways of feeling thinking and behaving. They work by providing an opportunity for you to talk in a way that assists you to understand yourself better. Having gained this understanding you can work out ways of living your life in a more positive and constructive way. This way of changing your life is very different from using drugs such as tranquillisers and antidepressants which doctors often prescribe for people who are emotionally distressed. These drugs change your mood by affecting the balance of chemicals in your body but do not help you to deal with underlying problems. Counselling is a form of psychological or talking therapy that offers people a chance to change how they feel and to live better.
A group consisting of parents and children living together in a household, A group of people related to one another by blood or marriage, The children of a person or couple, A person or people related to one and so to be treated with a special loyalty or intimacy.
Great worry caused by a difficult situation, or something which causes this condition