I Can’t Stop Thinking About the Person I Lost. Is That Normal?

Maybe you wake up thinking about them.

You replay your last conversation.

You remember something funny they said and instinctively think about telling them something.

Maybe this person died. Maybe a relationship ended. Maybe circumstances changed and someone who was once part of your everyday life simply isn’t there anymore.

Whatever happened, their absence can seem to follow you everywhere.

You might revisit your last moments together, wonder whether you could have done something differently, look through old photographs, reread old messages, or find yourself telling the same stories about them again and again.

Eventually you may start wondering:

Why can’t I stop thinking about them?

The simplest answer may be this:

Someone who mattered to your life is no longer present in it in the way they once were.

Your relationship with that person wasn’t contained in a single part of your day. They existed in your routines, expectations, memories, relationships, plans, and perhaps even your sense of the future.

Their absence can therefore appear in all of those places too.

You don’t necessarily need to make the thoughts disappear.

You may need to learn what to do with them.

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